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Bending over the barrel of a gun for punitive beating with a cane or cat.
A weapons or gunnery officer.
A vessel, typically an obsolete or captured warship, used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing. The term includes both ships intended to be sunk and ships intended to survive and see repeated use as a target.
Rear gunner is British slang for a male homosexual.
A gunner's assistant
In gunnery, an unsafe condition where the bore of the gun is not clear after firing.
Gunner Sugdens is British slang for long, baggy, old−fashioned short trousers.
Term for weapons specialist.
In gunnery, acquire the first salvo of gunfire on one side of the target, and the second salvo on the other.
Gunnery specialist.
A signal indicating that the correct spots have been applied and gunnery rounds are falling on target. The gun should now commence rapid fire.
In the days of sail, sailors were often flogged while bending over the barrel of a gun. See "Kissing the Gunner's Daughter".
In shipboard gunnery, when one round or salvo is too far, and the next one is too short, or vice versa.
An old naval expression meaning to be laid over a gun and receive a thrashing.
A shell (in gunnery).
Gunnery Instructor.
armed guard on or in a vehicle who watches for enemy activity and returns fire if attacked. Also a door gunner on a helicopter. Pg. 520
Gunnery order for a temporary cessation of firing. By extension it could also be used to silence somebody in the middle of an argument.
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An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
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A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
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An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
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The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.
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A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.
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One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer.
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A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.
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A gunner's bag for ammunition
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A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
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The sea bream.
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One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.
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That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
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Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
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To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
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A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
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A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.
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An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
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One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
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A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.
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