gunnery

Definition

The science of guns and gunfire, including aspects of bullet flight and impact.

Etymology

From gun + -ery.

Example Sentences

• "When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery— / When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,—"
• "Originally, doubtless, that petty officer's function was the instruction of the men in the use of arms, sword, or cutlass. But very long ago, owing to the advance in gunnery, making hand-to-hand encounters less frequent, and giving to nitre and sulphur the preeminence over steel, that function ceased [...]"
• "Northward incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, / Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war."

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