What is "gunnings"

Usage examples of "gunnings".

Not that it signifies in the least, for we all know how the Gunnings, who were nobody, married into the nobility.

It was said that one of the Gunnings had graced the apartment with her beauty.

I had had to assume that some of my fuses had somehow forerun, for I saw morose hazes at various points, was anon aware of the dumb bump and hum of some explosion somewhere remote, as when gunnings of Mont Pelée in Martinique get, like echoes of God's voice, to ears in Guadeloupe.