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gunmaker|ˈgʌnmeɪkə(r)|
One who makes or manufactures guns.
1385–6Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 390 Item Joh'i Gon⁓maker, ex præcepto d'ni Prioris, iijs. iiijd. 1597in Compt. Bk. D. Wedderburne (S.H.S. 1898) 82 Sauld to John Traill and William Lowis wyffis gunmakeris twa boundis lynt. 1816Sporting Mag. XLVII. 237 Our gun-makers, whose superiority over those in every other country..is universally acknowledged. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 441 All the gunmakers of Utrecht were found too few to execute the orders for pistols and muskets. 1858Greener Gunnery 229 note, Barrel welders, borers, lock-filers, &c., are not technically gun-makers: the latter are those workmen who, having barrels, locks, wood for stock, &c., make them into a gun. It has been customary to say gunsmiths; but this appellation can be applied to the worker in iron only.
So ˈgunmaking, the manufacture of guns.
1846Greener Sci. Gunnery Pref. 7 Gun-making should be to the sportsman a matter of peculiar interest. 1858― Gunnery 171 The gunmaking profession. |