Crossword clues for gunnery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunnery \Gun"ner*y\, n. That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from gun + -ery.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The science of guns and gunfire including aspects of bullet flight and impact. 2 (context uncountable English) The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber. 3 (context countable English) A place where guns are tested, or where people are trained in their use
WordNet
n. guns collectively
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "gunnery".
It is only you, Dear Gunnery Sergeant Charles Bass, who stands between me and the delightful spread of fiduciary opulence on the table.
Sabellum managed to land only one representative on Baffin, an elderly stone-deaf gunnery officer named Hector 284 QUEST FOR A NEW EMPIRE Pitchforth, who starved to death in his ten-by-fifteenfoot shack at Cape Kater on the isolated Brodeur Peninsula during the cruel winter of 1927.
Honey, Master Gunnery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, and, yeah, he probably took a lot of razzing because of his namebut probably not from the same guy twice.
The accuracy of the radar-COtitrolled main batteries, in the first gunnery exercises he had ordered, astounded him.
Major Banning be there if he knew it was Gunnery Sergeant Zimmerman calling?
For the aid so freely given him in the writing of this book and the obtaining of information on seamanship, gunnery, ship-design and the Gangway Pendulum, the author is profoundly grateful to Anna Mosser Roberts Booth Tarkington R.
Monday, September 19-Tuesday, November 18 Chocolate Mountain Gunnery Range Niland, California The CIA had wanted all the mission preparations to take place at their training facility at Camp Peary, Virginia, known as The Farm.
During gunnery practice Harry sat with his back to the muzzle of the cannon and while with his cranks he made two mechanical pointers hurry after two electrical pointers, he pounded back and forth between Tulla and Jenny.
Ainslie knew that Quinton did not like the gunnery officer very much, and that seemed to go for almost everyone else.
As plebes, they were taught the basics of navigation, physics, radionics, electronics, gunnery, and the like.
As he charted his course to Thron, he remembered something and turned to Asquiol sitting moodily in the gunnery seat, staring at his instruments.
Gunnery officers and spotters waited intently for any indication that the two remaining cruisers were returning to undistorted space-time, or that the main body of the fleet was giving up its futile search for the ghost ships.
Banning will detach, at such time and under such circumstances as he deems appropriate, Captain McCoy and Gunnery Sergeant Zimmerman so they may undertake the execution of their mission as directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
After a gunnery sergeant gave the signal, the Dunker dropped into a swimming pool like a boulder and turned upside down.
Gunnery Sergeant Garcia stepped over the body of Lance Corporal Van Housen and laid familiar hands on the Browning .