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He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were two large guns, fore and aft, throwing a four-inch projectile, and two smaller calibered quick-firers on either beam.

From Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

And when the weather cleared, our soldiers, our chasseurs were out of ammunition and borrowed from the Russian cartridge boxes, amply provided with cartridges for round, small calibered bullets.

From Battle Studies by Ardant du Picq, Charles Jean Jacques Joseph

In fact, the only large calibered piece not thus mounted is the Schneider mortar, a very efficient weapon, having a remarkably smooth recoil, which has a range of over six miles.

From Italy at War and the Allies in the West by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)

As the boat with the destroyer's men pulled back to the Bennington, he placed in easy reach in a corner of the room a heavy calibered rifle he had taken from his belongings.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry