Crossword clues for gunning
gunning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gunning \Gun"ning\, n. The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
The art of gunning was but little practiced.
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
n. The act of firing a gun. vb. (present participle of gun English)
WordNet
See gun
n. a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance]
a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn: gunman]
a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, gun for hire, triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
a hand-operated pump that resembles a gun; forces grease into parts of a machine [syn: grease-gun]
a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle]
the discharge of a gun as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies; "a twenty gun salute"
Wikipedia
Gunning can refer to:
Usage examples of "gunning".
When Gunning eased Biter off the wind a mile below them, so that whichever way she steered she could not slip past, the quarry tried no avoiding action nor did her people make a move for any of her guns.
At dawn next morning the Biter slipped downriver, with Gunning drunk and hardly capable at the con.
In the east the dawn was rising rapidly, and Gunning, against all expectation, chose this moment to burst back into life, and take the Biter with him.
Lieutenant Kaye, instead of piling on, ordered Gunning quietly to shorten sail, and made as if to bring Biter to and snug her for the night.
The gallant but optimistic Symons, Gunning of the Rifles, Sherston, Connor, Hambro, and many other brave men died that day.
I intend to find out exactly why such a prissy little peahen would come gunning for the likes of Billy Darling.
Colombiano pistolero came in, and he really took to her, she being about twice his height and weight, and she was tired of waiting on a paraplegic crip, so now he has her stashed down in the Hotel Mutiny there, eating chocolates and watching the soaps, while he is out around town gunning down the competition.
With those words, he revved up the engine, which took some loud gunning of the gas pedal and shaking of the metal frame, before he took off with a wave out the window.
Gunning spread everything, and the bulky brig, from slopping like a wicker basket full offish, dug in her nose, and then her arse, and surged.
Even so, Teasle was too good a policeman to condone gunning him down without first giving him a chance to give up.
Between him and John Gunning we spend a lot of time in Deptford, is one for instance, and we spend a lot of time on shore.
Twelve The yard at Deptford, and John Gunning both, had suffered much in terms of denigration.
In V8 Hyenas and haunchy drophead Acapulcos they cruise the road-margined seas, gunning to the medical zone for their daily DNA boosters and plasma rethinks.
For a moment the cars seemed fused together, and then there was the sound of Munson gunning his engine.
Felt in my stomach our wild escape away from there, Daddy, in his anger and loss, gunning the pickup truck over ruts and bumps.