Artillery operator

Usage examples of gunner.

Except for the annoyance of the bombs, the gunners of the forts had it much their own way until the broadsides of the Pensacola, which showed eleven heavy guns on either side, drew up abreast of them.

Gunner Nihala, a gallant native soldier, repeatedly extinguished the burning bhoosa with his cloak at the imminent peril of his life.

He hauled the big biplane around so tightly the whole frame shuddered, giving his gunners belly shots on three and four dragons at once.

In the Communications Center, Gunners Mate Second Class Art Brachman had just signed on the Internet to send an E-mail to his wife back in Portland, Oregon.

A quick little Duster rounded the corner, lifted its twin 40mm guns, and began blasting, the rounds directed just below the rooftops, while the machine gunner added to the death-dealing with .

Surprise bore down, therefore, under her fighting-sails, with her master at the con, her guns run out, powder-boys sitting well behind them on their leather cartridge-cases, shot-garlands full, splinter-netting rigged, scuttle-butts all along, decks damped and sanded, and wet fearnought screens over the hatches leading to the magazine far below, where the gunner sat among his little deadly kegs.

German night fighter was itself shot down over Berlin, probably hit by Warrant Officer Fidge, tail gunner in a 514 Squadron Lancaster.

The Master Sergeant craned his head to watch the gunner in the fougasse pit working.

A gunner had snatched the last gabion from the embrasure and one of the guns, silent for half an hour, bellowed flame and smoke down the hillside.

British gunners pointed their telescopes and saw that the cavern had been plugged with earth-filled wicker gabions and baulks of timber.

Behind each they could now make out the faint glow of the burning slow-match in the hands of the Gulls gunners.

What was within seemed to be soft vegetation, including well-chewed gunnera leaves.

Thereupon the lieutenant himself walked over to the forecastle hatch, and, hailing the gunner, ordered him to get up another ladder, so that the men could be run up on deck if the pirates should undertake to come aboard.

The other two slouched down as though they had not a care in the world and Bill the Gunner, restored to jockeyship, amused himself by pretending to whip Sensation while moving at a walk.

Eskimos had returned, accompanied by Keelhaul de Rosa and four or five riflemen and machine gunners.