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Definition of Gunrooms
1. gunroom [n] - See also: gunroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunrooms
Literary usage of Gunrooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vauban, Montalembert, Carnot: Engineer Studies by Ernest Marsh Lloyd (1887)
"... and as their size exposes them to curved fire, the front walls of the gunrooms
are masked by carrying the arches forward about twenty feet beyond them. ..."
2. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Richard Miller Devens (1884)
"A good of the nag-ship were assembled in one of !he deal of difficulty was
anticipated in getting gunrooms, when the Commodore presented over the bars in ..."
3. British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in by William Henry Koebel (1917)
"... fully appreciated by the festal inhabitants of the various gunrooms when ashore
on leave. Rio of the early nineteenth century was not the Rio of to-day! ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1860)
"These things were whispered in the gunrooms, and produced their effect— listen
to the record of Fit/James, the once lighthearted and still brave ..."
5. B.C., 1887: A Ramble in British Columbia by James Arthur Lees, Walter J. Clutterbuck (1888)
"... a quaint conceit which in the interests of truth might be adopted in most of
our English gunrooms and smoking-rooms. There we found Baillie-Grohman, ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1856)
"Anecdotes run the round of ward and gunrooms, of the adventures of the guard-boats
overnight, how a 'cheeky' frolicsome young lord, heir to the glories of a ..."
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