Definition of gunned Gunned
/gŹĖnd/ - [gund] - gunned
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| gun - a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel) | ||
| weapon system, weapon, arm any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" | ||
| action mechanism, action something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" | ||
| air gun, air rifle, airgun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air | ||
| ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, pom-pom, flack, flak artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | ||
| gun barrel, barrel a cylindrical container that holds liquids | ||
| breechloader a gun that is loaded at the breech | ||
| cannon lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | ||
| cannon lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | ||
| cartridge ejector, ejector a mechanism in a firearm that ejects the empty shell case after firing | ||
| cartridge extractor, cartridge remover, extractor a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector | ||
| cartridge clip, cartridge holder, clip, magazine a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | ||
| firearm, small-arm, piece a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" | ||
| firing chamber, gun chamber chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge | ||
| gas gun a gun that fires gas shells | ||
| firing mechanism, gunlock the action that ignites the charge in a firearm | ||
| gun muzzle, muzzle the open circular discharging end of a gun | ||
| gun-sight, gunsight a sight used for aiming a gun | ||
| gun trigger, trigger lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun | ||
| minute gun (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) | ||
| quaker gun a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood | ||
| safety catch, safety lock guard consisting of a locking device that prevents a weapon from being fired | ||
| set gun, spring gun a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off | ||
| gunstock, stock the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" | ||
| gun - the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "two runners started before the gun"; "a twenty gun salute" | ||
| firing off, firing, discharge the act of discharging a gun | ||
| armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | ||
| gun - large but transportable armament | ||
| artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance | ||
| armament weaponry used by military or naval force | ||
| battery an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | ||
| cannon lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | ||
| field artillery, field gun movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) | ||
| four-pounder an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds | ||
| gun - a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" | ||
| accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle | ||
| foot lever, foot pedal, treadle, pedal a lever that is operated with the foot | ||
| auto, automobile, motorcar, car, machine a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" | ||
| aeroplane, airplane, plane an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" | ||
| gun - a professional killer who uses a gun | ||
| gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter | ||
| manslayer, murderer, liquidator a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | ||
| gun - a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) | ||
| gunman | ||
| shooter, shot (sports) a player who drives or kicks a ball at the goal (or a basketball player who shoots at the basket) | ||
| gun - a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine | ||
| grease-gun | ||
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| gun - shoot with a gun | ||
| blast, shoot shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | ||
| gun down strike down or shoot down | ||
| machine gun shoot with a machine gun | ||
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Wiktionary 
- gun (Noun)
A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol or Derringer. - gun (Noun)
A less portable, long firearm, bullet or projectile firing; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun. - gun (Noun)
A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity . JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 As Amended Through 15 March 2012. Page 142. - gun (Noun)
A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. - gun (Noun)
Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e. g. , air-pressure pellet gun , air rifle , BB gun , zipgun; a home-made firearm such as a potato gun . - gun (Noun)
Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e. g. , nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun. - gun (Noun)
A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e. g. , rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun. - gun (Noun)
A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower. - gun (Noun)
A pattern that "fires" out other patterns. - gun (Noun)
A man who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun. - gun (Noun)
The biceps. - gun (Verb)
To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm. - gun (Verb)
To speed something up. - gun (Verb)
To offer vigorous support to a person or cause. - gun (Verb)
To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone. - gun (Verb)
To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning. - gun (Verb)
A verb used to express future action.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
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of Gin - gun (n.)
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. - gun (n.)
A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. - gun (n.)
Violent blasts of wind. - gun (v. i.)
To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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A language of Benin and Nigeria
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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gun, n. a firearm or weapon, from which balls or other projectiles are discharged, usually by means of gunpowderānow generally applied to cannon: one who carries a gun, a member of a shooting-party.āv.i. (Amer.) to shoot with a gun.āns. Gunā²-barrā²el, the barrel or tube of a gun; Gunā²boat, a boat or small vessel of light draught, fitted to carry one or more guns; Gunā²-carrā²iage, a carriage on which a gun or cannon is supported; Gunā²-cottā²on, an explosive prepared by saturating cotton with nitric acid; Gunā²-fire (mil.), the hour at which the morning or evening gun is fired; Gunā²-flint, a piece of flint fitted to the hammer of a flint-lock musket; Gunā²-metā²al, an alloy of copper and tin in the proportion of 9 to 1, used in making guns; Gunā²nage, the number of guns carried by a ship of war; Gunā²ner, one who works a gun or cannon: (naut.) a petty officer who has charge of the ordnance on board ship; Gunā²nery, the art of managing guns, or the science of artillery; Gunā²ning, shooting game; Gunā²-port, a port-hole; Gunā²powder, an explosive powder used for guns and firearms; Gunā²-room, the apartment on board ship occupied by the gunner, or by the lieutenants as a mess-room; Gunā²shot, the distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun.āadj. caused by the shot of a gun.āadj. Gunā²-shy, frightened by guns (of a sporting dog).āns. Gunā²smith, a smith or workman who makes or repairs guns or small-arms; Gunā²stick, a ramrod; Gunā²stock, the stock or piece of wood on which the barrel of a gun is fixed; Gunā²stone (Shak.), a stone, formerly used as shot for a gun; Gunā²-tackā²le (naut.), the tackle used on board ship by which the guns are run to and from the port-holes; Gunā²-wad, a wad for a gun; Gatā²ling-gun, a revolving battery-gun, invented by R. J. Gatling about 1861, usually having ten parallel barrels, capable of firing 1200 shots a minute; Machineā²-gun (see Machine).āAs sure as a gun, quite sure, certainly; Blow great guns, to blow tempestuouslyāof wind; Great gun, a cannon: (coll.) a person of great importance; Son of a gun, a rogue, rascal. [M. E. gonne, from W. gwn, a bowl, a gun, acc. to Skeat.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book āµ
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The usual service name for a cannon (which see); it was originally called great gun, to distinguish it from the small or hand guns, muskets, blunderbusses, &c. The general construction for guns of cast metal is fairly represented by the old rule that the circumference at the breech ought to measure eleven calibres, at the trunnions nine, and at the muzzle seven, for iron; and in each instance two calibres less for brass guns. But the introduction of wrought-iron guns, built up with outer jackets of metal shrunk on one above another, is developing other names and proportions in the new artillery. (See BUILT-UP GUNS.) The weight of these latter, though differently disposed, and required not so much for strength as for modifying the recoil or shock to the carriage on discharge, is not very much less, proportionally, for heavy guns of full power, than that of the old ones, being about 1-1/4 cwt. of gun for every 1 lb. of shot; for light guns for field purposes it is about 3/4 cwt. for every 1 lb. of shot. Guns are generally designated from the weight of the shot they discharge, though some few natures, introduced principally for firing shells, were distinguished by the diameter of their bore in inches; with the larger guns of the new system, in addition to this diameter, the weight in tons is also specified.--Gun, in north-country cant, meant a large flagon of ale, and son of a gun was a jovial toper: the term, owed its derivation to lads born under the breast of the lower-deck guns in olden times, when women were allowed to accompany their husbands. Even in 1820 the best petty officers were allowed this indulgence, about one to every hundred men. Gunners also, who superintended the youngsters, took their wives, and many living admirals can revert to kindness experienced from them. These "sons of a gun" were tars, and no mistake.--Morning gun, a signal fired by an admiral or commodore at day-break every morning for the drums or bugles to sound the reveillƩ. A gun of like name and nature is generally in use in fortresses; as is also the evening gun, fired by an admiral or commodore at 9 P.M. in summer, and 8 P.M. in winter, every night, on which the drums or bugles sound the retreat.
Military DictionaryMilitary Dictionary and Gazetteer š„
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In its most general sense, a gun is a machine, having the general shape of a hollow cylinder closed at one end, and used for the purpose of projecting heavy bodies to great distances by means of gunpowder. Technically, it is a heavy cannon, distinguished by its great weight, length, and absence of a chamber. It is used for throwing projectiles with large charges of powder to long distances, with great accuracy and penetration. Guns came into use in the 14th century, and were first fired from supports, and in reality were artillery. Shortly after, they took the form of a clumsy hand-gun, called an arquebuse, which was portable, but discharged from a forked rest. The next modification, which came into use about the end of the 14th century, was called the matchlock. The piece was discharged by a lighted match brought down on the powder-pan by the action of a trigger. This was superseded in 1517 by the wheel-lock, the fire being produced by the action of a toothed wheel upon flint or iron pyrites. Almost contemporary with this was the snaphance gun, in which sparks were generated by the concussion of flint on the ribbed top of the powder-pan. About the middle of the 17th century the flint-lock began to be employed. This was a combination of the two latter weapons, but much superior to either. It continued universally in use until the early part of the present century, when the percussion-lock was invented, which by 1840 (the time of its adoption by the British government), had completely superseded it. As the lock improved, and the rapidity of firing increased, the weight of the piece diminished; the old tripod first used as a rest gave way to one stake, and finally, in the 18th century, was abandoned altogether. The weapon was then the smooth-bore musket, which continued in use with various modifications until the middle of the 19th century, when it was partially superseded by the rifle. (See SMALL-ARMS.) In their earlier stages cannon went by various names, as bombards, culverins, petronels, and later on were reduced to the three denominations, technically, of guns, howitzers, and mortars. For the two latter, see HOWITZER and MORTAR. Guns are subdivided in the U.Ā S. service according to their use, into field, siege, and sea-coast guns. The field-guns consist of two rifle pieces; the 3-inch rifle, adopted in 1861, and the 3Ā¹āā-inch rifle, adopted in 1870 (see ORDNANCE, CONSTRUCTION OF), and the Napoleon gun, a 12-pounder smooth-bore, adopted in 1857. (See NAPOLEON GUN.) The only siege gun adopted by the United States is a 4Ā¹āā-inch rifle. The 30-pounder Parrott, so extensively employed in our service for siege purposes, is not a regulation gun. The sea-coast guns consist of 13-, 15-, and 20-inch smooth-bores, and 10- and 12-inch rifles. An 8-inch rifle has been constructed by converting the 10-inch smooth-bore according to the Palliser or Parsons method. The 13-inch smooth-bore and the 10- and 12-inch rifles are regarded as experimental guns. The guns principally in use for the land and sea forces of the United States are those known as the Columbiad, or Rodman, Dahlgren, Gatling, Hotchkiss, Napoleon, Parrott. (For particular descriptions, see appropriate headings.) In the British service they are the Armstrong, Palliser, Woolwich, or Fraser, and the Lancaster, Mackay, and Whitworth; the three latter being now very little used. (See appropriate headings.) The only breech-loader in general use in Europe is the Krupp, which is largely employed for all purposes by Germany and Russia. See KRUPP GUN.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue š
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He is in the gun; he is drunk: perhaps from an allusion to a vessel called a gun, used for ale in the universities.
Wikipedia 
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A gun is a machine used to shoot bullets. Guns are also called "firearms". They can be of many different sizes: small enough to hold in one hand, or large enough to fire shells to sink a warship. Guns that are small enough to be carried and used by one person all have the same basic parts: a trigger, a barrel, and a handle. The trigger is pulled by a finger to fire the bullet. The barrel guides the bullet. The handle is held by the human who will fire the gun.
In military terms, the word "firearm" is usually used for the type of weapons that soldiers carry (pistols and rifles), while the word "gun" is used for larger guns that fire at higher speed. The weapons on warships and tanks are called "guns" or "turrets" (if placed on a rotating base), not "firearms".
Guns are very effective weapons. Guns guide bullets at a very high speed which is much more deadly than a traditional arrow. Bullets are contained within "rounds", also known as "cartridges". A cartridge consists of a "bullet", a "casing", "Propellant" and a "primer". "Cartridges" have different ways of being loaded into different kinds of weapons. Cartridges can be loaded directly into a firearm or into a "clip", a "magazine" or other bullet container which is loaded into the firearm. Some firearms have their rounds loaded into the "stock (or butt)" of the weapon. A "clip" is loaded with rounds and the "clip" is loaded into a weapon. The "magazine" is a container for the rounds which has a spring that moves the bullets
