Crossword clues for gunner
gunner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunner \Gun"ner\, n.
One who works a gun or cannon, whether on land, sea, or in the air; a cannoneer.
A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.
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(Zo["o]l.)
The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.
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The sea bream. [Prov. Eng. or Irish]
Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang]
--W. C. Russell.tail gunner (Mil.) A member of the crew of a bomber airplane who operates the defensive gun at the rear of the airplane.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., gonner "one who works a cannon," agent noun from gun.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context military English) Artillery soldier, or such who holds private rank. Abbreviated Gnr. 2 A person who operates a gun. 3 (context figuratively English) An excessive go-getter; one exhibiting over-ambition. 4 (context American football English) A player on the kicking side whose primary job is to tackle the kickoff returner or punt returner. 5 (context UK slang soccer English) A fan of the Arsenal Football Club. 6 The great northern diver or loon. 7 (context UK Ireland dialect English) The sea bream. Etymology 2
contraction (context rare English) (alternative spelling of gonna English)
WordNet
n. a serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, machine gunner]
Wikipedia
Gunner, the Gunner, Gunners or the Gunners may refer to:
Gunner (Gnr) is a rank equivalent to private in the British Army Royal Artillery and the artillery corps of other Commonwealth armies. The next highest rank is usually lance-bombardier, although in the Royal Canadian Artillery it is bombardier. Historically, there was an inferior rank, matross.
Chad Lail (born June 6, 1982) is an American professional wrestler best known for his time in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, under the ring name Gunner where he is a one-time TNA Television Champion and a one-time TNA World Tag Team Champion with James Storm.
Gunner (born c. August 1941) was a stray male kelpie who became notable for his reliability to accurately alert allied air force personnel that Japanese aircraft were approaching Darwin during World War II.
In American football, a gunner, also known as a shooter, flyer, headhunter, or kamikaze, is a player on kickoffs and punts who specializes in running down the sideline very quickly in an attempt to tackle the kick or punt returner. Gunners must have several techniques in order to break away or "shed" blockers, and have good agility in order to change their running direction quickly. Gunners on the punt team also must be able to block or catch.
Gunners typically also play positions as defensive backs, wide receivers, or running back when not on special teams, often as backups.
Gunner may also refer to the one or two players assigned to block the gunner of the punting team.
The NFL Pro Bowl features a "Special Teamer" position, along with a kicker, punter, and kick returner. This is often the gunner considered to be among the best. Steve Tasker, a 7-time Pro Bowler, is considered to be one of the top gunners in NFL history. Matthew Slater of the New England Patriots is also considered a top gunner.
A gunner is a cocktail served in more prominent clubs and bars, especially those popular with expats, in Hong Kong and other parts of the Far East and India formerly under British colonial rule. It consists of equal parts ginger beer (or lemonade) and ginger ale with a dash of Angostura bitters and sometimes a measure of lime cordial or lemon juice. It is regarded as a non-alcoholic drink, although Angostura bitters is 44.7% alcohol by volume. It is noted for its refreshing qualities, especially in warm weather.
The gunner has been described as "the only real Hong Kong cocktail".
Related drinks (or possibly alternative names): Malawi shandy, rock shandy, Windermere
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.