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Definition of Gunmaker
1. a maker of guns [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunmaker
Literary usage of Gunmaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Captains of Industry by James Parton (1919)
"GENERAL SETH POMROY, gunmaker. SETH POMROY was the gunmaker of Northampton, in
Massachusetts, from 1727 to the Revolutionary War. The gunsmith's trade was ..."
2. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machin, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"... master to the sayd Gilbert Pot, and John Owen, a gunmaker, both gunners of
the Tower, comming from the Tower of London by water in a ..."
3. Captains of Industry ...: A Book for Young Americans, by James Parton by James Parton (1891)
"SETH POMROY was the gunmaker of Northampton, in Massachusetts, from 1727 to the
Revolutionary War. The gunsmith's trade was an exceedingly important one in ..."
4. Burgh Laws of Dundee: With the History, Statutes, & Proceedings of the Guild by Alex Johnston Warden, Dundee (Scotland). (1872)
"... Peter Alysoun, gunmaker, Jhone Alysoun, gunmaker, Dekin—Patrik Ramsay, ...
Robert Alysoun, gunmaker, Hew Ramsay, gunmaker, sone to ye said Silvestr, ..."
5. Career of Louis-Philippe: With a Full Account of the Late Revolution by David Wemyss Jobson (1848)
"... a body of men attempted to break into a gunmaker's shop, but failed. They next
attacked the shop of a marchand de J>ois, and the firewood which it ..."
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