Definition of Gunrooms

1. Noun. (plural of gunroom) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gunrooms

1. gunroom [n] - See also: gunroom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunrooms

gunocracy
gunpaper
gunpapers
gunperson
gunpersons
gunplay
gunplays
gunpoint
gunpoints
gunport
gunports
gunpowder
gunpowderish
gunpowders
gunroom
gunrooms (current term)
gunrunner
gunrunners
gunrunning
gunrunnings
guns
gunsels
gunship
gunships
gunshot
gunshot wound
gunshots
gunshy
gunsight

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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