'Very night signals' definitions:

Definition of 'Very night signals'

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Very's night signals \Ver"y's night signals\, or Very night signals \Ver"y night signals\ . [After Lieut. Samuel W. Very, who invented the system in 1877.] (Naut.) 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

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