Windage
- n. The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.
- n. The difference between the diameter of the bore of a gun and that of the shot fired from it.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.