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gun-room|ˈgʌnrʊm|
1. In large ships of war, a compartment orig. occupied by the gunner and his mates, but now fitted up for the accommodation of the junior officers; in smaller vessels, that used as a mess-room by the lieutenants.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 11 About the Gun-roome, the Tiller, the rudder, the pintels, the gudgions. a1642Sir W. Monson Naval Tracts iii. (1704) 360/2 The upper Gun-Room..is used for a Store-Room, Lodgings. 1673Dryden Amboyna iii. iii, Oh, now it begins, and the gun-room grows hot, Ply it with culverin and with small shot. 1711W. Sutherland Shipbuilder's Assist. 36 Upon the lower Gun-deck in Men of War there is an Apartment for the Gunner, called the Gun-room; it is for fitting and securing all his small Stores. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xi. (1840) 200 The gunner of the ship..secured himself in the gun-room. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 44 The first lieutenant had asked me to dine in the gun⁓room. 1884Pae Eustace 86 You forget..that I shall be in the gun-room, and he in the forecastle.
Proverb.1697Vanbrugh Relapse iii. iii, I'm afraid we shall find a great job on't. Pray Heaven that old rogue Coupler han't sent us to fetch milk out of the gunroom.
b. attrib., as gun-room bulkhead, gun-room gossip, gun-room gun, gun-room hour, gun-room officer, gun-room steward; gun-room ports, stern ports cut through the gun-room in a frigate (Hamersly Naval Encycl. 1881).
1712W. Rogers Voy. 27 We struck two of our Gun-room Guns into the Hold. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 32 They lowered down a bucket out of the cabbin-window, into which the gunner, out of one of the gun-room ports, put a quantity of pistol cartridges. 1825H. B. Gascoigne Nav. Fame 61 The Gunroom hour to dine is long since past. 1855Sir A. West Recoll. (1899) I. vi. 212 The gunroom officers had asked us to dinner. 1895Westm. Gaz. 6 Nov. 3/2 The Doctor's cabin was next to the gun-room bulkhead. 1898Daily News 9 Nov. 6/3 They..talk the most knowing gun-room gossip.
2. A room in which guns are kept.
1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. i, Your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room. 1883Black Shandon Bells xxvi, It is like the place too—the gun-room even, and the stuffed birds. |