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Definition of Gun rest
1. Noun. Wale at the top of the side of boat; topmost planking of a wooden vessel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gun Rest
Literary usage of Gun rest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild-fowl by L. H. De Visme Shaw, W. H. Pope, Alexander Innes Shand (1905)
"The elevation of the gun is regulated to the requirements of the shot by means
of the gun-rest, which is pushed forwards or drawn towards the gunner ..."
2. Sporting Guns and Gunpowders: Comprising a Selection from Reports of by Frederick Toms (1897)
"THE woodcut herewith inserted gives a representation of a new gun-rest which we
have had ... This gun-rest (which has been designed by Mr. HF Phillipe, ..."
3. Shooting ...: Moor and Marsh by Ralph Payne-Gallwey (1893)
"Gun-rest.—Similar to a billiard-cue rest, but flat on the top ... Some rests are
made to take the barrel in a groove, but Head of Gun-rest, then the rest ..."
4. Shooting by Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1903)
"Few fowlers can fire such an unwieldy weapon as a stanchion-gun from hand without
the assistance of a gun rest, and it is, therefore, usual before ..."
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