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gunnery|ˈgʌnərɪ|
Also 7 (rare) gunry.
[f. gun + -ery.]
1. The science and art of constructing and managing guns, esp. large military and naval guns.
1605Camden Rem. (1629) 104 Archerie..now dispossessed by gunnery, how iustly let other iudge. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 33 Master Burnes Arte of gunry. 1676T. Binning (title) A Light to the Art of Gunnery. 1778Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 52 The knowledge of this velocity is of the utmost consequence in gunnery. 1885Act 48 & 49 Vict. c. 36 (title) A School of Gunnery. 1897Ld. Roberts 41 Yrs. India lxvii. (1898) 528 A great advance was made in gunnery.
2. The firing of guns; the use of guns for sporting purposes; = gunning vbl. n. 2.
1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 109 This bright amusement may challenge the preference of most kinds of gunnery. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 98 They are..crying the ‘Harvest Home’ in a chorus before which..the song, the scolding, the gunnery fade away and become faint echoes. 1869Echo 9 Oct., The never-ending gunnery of..idle scamps, who go out valiantly to destroy linnets.
3. concr. Guns collectively.
1497Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 61 With horsis, gunrye, artailzerie, and ail vther defensabile wapinnis. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. III. 129 They went into the arsenal, where a funny old man in a blue blouse showed them ancient and modern gunnery.
†4. A place where instruction is given in the use of guns. Obs. rare.
1732E. Forrest Hogarth's Tour 9 Paid at the gunnery and dock, 1s. 6d.
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1892Labour Commission Gloss., Gunnery, work done by shipwrights in connection with guns and their stowage, &c.
6. attrib., as gunnery-course, gunnery-drill, gunnery duty; gunnery jack Naval slang, a gunnery-lieutenant; gunnery-lieutenant, ‘one who, having obtained a warrant from a gunnery-ship, is eligible to large ships to assist specially in supervising the gunnery duties’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867); gunnery-ship, a ship fitted for training men in the practice of gunnery.
1870Echo 11 Nov., The gunnery ship Cambridge. 1886Pall Mall G. 11 Sept. 11/1 The next day or two are employed..in carrying out the various gunnery drills and firing the great guns at a target. 1894Daily News 7 Apr. 6/2 A gunnery course will be held on H.M.S. Cambridge, for retired officers of the Royal Navy. 1904Kipling Traffics & Discov. 53 The Gunner mops up a heathenish large detail for some hanky-panky in the magazines, an' led 'em off along with our Gunnery Jack. 1908Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 4/6 A smarter man than Gunnery Jack is not to be found in the services. 1925[see gun n. 5 c]. |