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boresighted

boresighted is the simple past and past participle of boresight.

Meaning of boresight

Verb

boresight (third-person singular simple present boresights, present participle boresighting, simple past and past participle boresighted)

  1. To use a boresight to align a gun barrel with the gun's sights.
    • A holiday spirit prevailed throughout the task group on these special days; stationkeeping was a bit more lax, and gun crews were off-duty so that the gunners could lubricate, adjust, and boresight their guns[…]2022 December 21, Drachinifel, quoting M. Dick van Orden, 11:52 from the start, in Typhoon Cobra - When the weather does more damage than the enemy, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2025

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Questions about boresighted

What is boresighted the simple past and past participle of?
Boresighted is the simple past and past participle of boresight.

Words near boresighted in the dictionary

  1. borescoped
  2. borescopes
  3. borescoping
  4. Boreses
  5. boresight
  6. boresighted
  7. boresighting
  8. boresights
  9. boresome
  10. boresomely
  11. boresomeness

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