gunnery
pronunciation
How to pronounce gunnery in British English: UK [ˈgʌnəri]
How to pronounce gunnery in American English: US [ˈɡʌnəri]
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- Noun:
- guns collectively
Word Origin
- gunnery (n.)
- c. 1600, "science of gun-making," from gun + -ery. Meaning "science of firing guns" is from 1816.
Example
- 1. What can you tell me about the gunnery sergeant ?
- 2. People thought of controlling precipitations in the 17th century . They used bell ringing and gunnery for the purpose of cloud shifting .
- 3. The skill interfacing with a ships turrets . Allows the use of advanced gunnery implants .
- 4. Such trainings are not a rare thing , the gunnery range works all year round .
- 5. And to cut a long story short , after regrouping once they had done their service during the second world war ( sir andrew venturing into both gunnery and marriage ) they were able to work out what was going on .