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noun

Gunner 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.

(Zool.)

(a)

The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.

(b)

The sea bream. (Prov. Eng. or Irish)

Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. (Sailor's slang)

tail gunner (Mil.) A member of the crew of a bomber airplane who operates the defensive gun at the rear of the airplane.

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"Gunner" Quotes from Famous Books

... be, the story was that Captain Brand and his gunner, and Captain Malyoe of the Adventure and the sailing master of the Adventure all went ashore together with a chest of money (no one of them choosing to trust the other three in so nice an affair), and buried the treasure somewhere on the beach of Port Royal Harbor. The story then ...

— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle

... and none were so great as the Captain and his boy Avery, which had like to have proved very fatal to him; for Avery one night, observing the Captain to be very drunk with some passengers that were on board, got a lighted match and had like to have blown up the ship, had not the Gunner happened accidentally to follow him into the store-room. This made the Captain ever after very shy of his new Acquaintance, and Avery, after he had been well whipped, was ordered down into the hold, where he remained until they arrived at Carolina, which ...

— Pirates • Anonymous

... island of Rhodes. Unlike many of his colleagues he seems to have been the son of Mohammedan parents, tillers of the earth. Being adventurous by nature, he took service as a boy in the Turkish fleet and became "a good pilot and a most excellent gunner." At last he contrived to purchase and man a galleot, with which he cruised the waters of the Levant, where his intimate acquaintance with all the coasts and islands enabled him to seize and dispose of many prizes. Kheyr-ed-d[i]n Barbarossa ...

— The Story of the Barbary Corsairs • Stanley Lane-Poole

... The gunner was yearning for this, and the bellow of his piece responded to the captain's words. But the shot only threw up a long path of fountains, and the bilander ploughed on as merrily ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... other day. He is goin' t' Boston t' command the Raleigh, a thirty-two gunner. But one's no ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

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