Gunwright
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gunwright is a noun meaning A maker of guns.
Meaning
A maker of guns.
Example Sentences
At the start of the century, widows in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston were printers, shoemakers, engravers, and silversmiths, and sometimes blacksmiths, shipbuilders, or gunwrights.
Many of them were sent to the provincial gunsmiths, and good Samuel Miller, locksmith and gunwright, labored long and wearily to put the uncouth weapons into something like effective shape for his discontented countrymen.
Word Forms
- gunwrights
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gunmaker, weaponmaker, gunsmith, riflemaker, armorer, gunfitter.
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