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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Very's night signals

· Ver·y's night signals · IPA
01 A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a cod…
  1. 1.
    A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance. The pistol used to fire the signal flare is called a Very pistol.(Naut.)