GUNNERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gunnery mean? 

• GUNNERY (noun)
  The noun GUNNERY has 1 sense:

1. guns collectively

  Familiarity information: GUNNERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUNNERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Guns collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gunnery" is a kind of...):

arms; implements of war; munition; weaponry; weapons system (weapons considered collectively)

 Context examples 

The mutineers were bolder than we fancied or they put more trust in Israel's gunnery.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Their harbour drill and their harbour gunnery had been of no service when sails had to be trimmed and broadsides fired on the heave of an Atlantic swell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)