(n.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Elderly patients are sometimes stereotyped as "crocks" and "gomers"--crotchety chronic complainers beyond help and hope.
Oafish
Definition:
(a.) Like an oaf; simple.
Example Sentences:
(1) One Round (Danny Green) is the oafish representative of the British masses.
(2) The winger made Jonny Evans seem oafish as he feinted his way past him on the right and then glided 20 yards forward before racing into the box, past Jonas Olsson, and firing into the net despite an attempted block by Craig Dawson.
(3) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
(4) The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
(5) Being a chortling oaf not only makes you critically bulletproof – oafish chortling being a perpetual escape pod – it functions as a kind of cloaking device, somehow obscuring the notion that you're a politician at all.
(6) Dante, who's already booked, oafishly knees Reus in the chest!
(7) It would be a mistake to dismiss Trump as some oafish “man baby” who impulsively blurts out whatever comes into his mind.
(8) Carroll may be uncouth as a footballer but he has an ability to make almost any defender look oafish – Roy Hodgson might just consider that a precious trait when he selects his World Cup squad.
(9) I couldn’t accept what was going on in the first half.” The players’ response spoke volumes for the malaise at the club – within three minutes of the resumption they were 3-0 down, Ulloa slamming a penalty into the net after Rivière was punished for an oafish challenge on the Leicester defender Marcin Wasilewski.
(10) In an oafish article published last week in the Financial Times, Martin Taylor, the chairman of WH Smith, declared that Germany, in cahoots with France, remains one of our principal rivals.