Meanings of percussions in English

My percussions sent a glass over the end of the table and it shattered.

The thunder, in quick, sharp percussions, broke over the ravine; but as yet it rained not.

Physical phenomena commenced with series of severe percussions.

No more winds or odors, no percussions; nothing.

The percussions and winds can be real stinkers.

The percussions of a grain of shot shaken in a bottle are not swifter or more senseless.

At intervals were heard the quick percussions of blows, and the dull, sodden sound of falling bodies.

The percussions were around him everywhere.

It was filled with rumbling thunder, breaking at intervals into louder percussions, as the red bolts passed hissing through it.

He could hear lesser percussions too, like it was bonfire night and he was indoors, half a mile from the display.

They had another remarkable instrument made up of a double octave of small drums which gave forth percussions remarkably disturbing to the emotional centres.

Ten seconds later they were running full speed, with the muffler cut out, and sharp percussions puncturing the air like a Gatling gun's terrific detonations.

Adolph put the percussion cap in its place and started the mechanism.

The revolver of the Civil War was, of course, a percussion-cap weapon.

In fact, the percussion-lock rifle did move warfare onto a bloodier plane.

One he'd bought just that day; a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver.