GUN
\ɡˈʌn], \ɡˈʌn], \ɡ_ˈʌ_n]\
Definitions of GUN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas"
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large but transportable armament
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a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine
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the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute"
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a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
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a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
By Princeton University
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a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas"
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large but transportable armament
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a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine
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the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute"
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a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
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a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
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Violent blasts of wind.
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To practice fowling or hunting small game; - chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
By Oddity Software
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A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
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Violent blasts of wind.
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To practice fowling or hunting small game; - chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A firearm or weapon, from which balls or other projectiles are discharged, usually by means of gunpowder: now, generally applied to cannon.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To shoot with a gun.
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A metal tube for firing projectiles by the force of gunpowder or other explosive.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Any firearm, except a pistol and revolver; a fowling-piece; an instr. for throwing shot by means of gunpowder, as a musket, a rifle, a cannon.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Etymology uncertain; perhaps from Latin] A tube or barrel, usually of iron, for discharging balls, shot, or other missiles, by the explosion of gunpowder; a fire-arm in general—the larger kinds are called cannon, and the smaller, musket, carbine, rifle, fowling-piece, &c.
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