| 词汇 | very light: very pistol |
| 词源 | Very light: Very pistol. American naval officer Edward Wil- son Very (1847–1910) was an admiral by the time he retired in 1885. The rank came mainly as a reward for his invention of the Very light, the important illuminating flare signal that was fired from the Very pistol, which he also invented. |
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