单词 | gunmaker |
释义 | gunmakern. One who makes or manufactures guns. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > armourer > [noun] > one who makes artillery or firearms gunmaker1385 artillerc1453 gunner1463 gunsmith1588 pyrobolist1696 gun-worker1905 1385–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 390 It. Joh'i Gonmaker ex praecepto d'ni Prioris, 3s. 4d. 1597 in Compt. Bk. D. Wedderburne (1898) 82 Sauld to John Traill and William Lowis wyffis gunmakeris twa boundis lynt. 1816 Sporting Mag. 47 237 Our gun-makers, whose superiority over those in every other country..is universally acknowledged. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 441 All the gunmakers of Utrecht were found too few to execute the orders for pistols and muskets. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 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. Derivatives ˈgunmaking n. the manufacture of guns. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition pyrotechny1579 pyrotechnics1729 gunmaking1846 munition1916 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) Pref. 7 Gun-making should be to the sportsman a matter of peculiar interest. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 171 The gunmaking profession. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1385 |
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