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Definition of Gunless
1. having no gun [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunless
Literary usage of Gunless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lord Northcliffe's War Book: With Chapters on America at War by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1917)
"The storming of Fort Douaumont, gunless and unmanned, ... A number of the
Brandenburgers climbed into the gunless fort, and some of them are still there, ..."
2. At the War by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1916)
"The storming of Fort Douaumont, gunless and unmanned, ... A number of the
Brandenburgers climbed into the gunless fort, and some of them are still there, ..."
3. At the War by Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe (1916)
"The storming of Fort Douaumont, gunless and unmanned, ... A number of the
Brandenburgers climbed into the gunless fort, and some of them are still there, ..."
4. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"... hunter and a gunless gunner see ay game enough. ... hunter and a gunless gunner
see routh 'o game. ..."
5. The British Navy: Its Strength, Resources, and Administration by Thomas Brassey Brassey (1882)
"What would be the use of gunless rams in attacking vessels protected by ...
What superiority would a gunless ram have when contending against a fully gunned ..."
6. Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1905)
"... gunless — except for Hurree Babu, guide- less. And this collapse of their
Great Game (Kim wondered to whom they would report it), this panicky bolt into ..."
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