Gunnery

Quick meaning: Gunnery is a noun meaning (uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact.

Meaning

(uncountable) The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber.
2. (uncountable) The firing of guns.
3. (countable) A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use.

Example Sentences

Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war.

When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery— / When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,—

The 12th march company telephoned claiming that someone in the office had heard that they were waiting to do some shooting practice at moveable targets and that they would only leave after gunnery practice under front conditions.

Originally, doubtless, that petty officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword, or cutlass. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery, making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent, and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased [...]

Word Forms

• gunneries

Related Words

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