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Gonne

Gonne may refer to:

  • A medieval hand cannon.
  • Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary.
  • Iseult Gonne (1894–1954), daughter of Maud Gonne and Lucien Millevoye.
  • The gonne, a "character" in the Discworld novel Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett

Usage examples of "gonne".

Squire Forster, gonnes in plenty, but almost nae poudre, nor ane left as can mix it.

Camera Gildaule sunt sex Instrumenta de Laton vocata Gonnes cum quinque teleres ad eadem.

Blew the great gonne tae flinders, it did, sent a' the gonners tae meet Auld Clootie, fired a' the timbers alang wi' fu' mickle caskets a' poudre!

And in hir swough so sadly holdeth she Hir children two, whan she gan hem tembrace, That with greet sleighte and greet difficultee The children from hir arm they gonne arace.

Ne how somme caste hir sheeld, and somme hir spere, And of hire vestimentz whiche that they were, And coppes full of wyn, and milk, and blood, Into the fyr, that brente as it were wood, Ne how the Grekes, with an huge route, Thryes riden al the place aboute, Upon the left hand with a loud shoutynge, And thries with hir speres claterynge, And thries how the ladyes gonne crye, And how that lad was homward Emelye.