Definitions for gunmetal

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gunmetal gun·met·al

Spelling: [guhn-met-l]

IPA: /ˈgʌnˌmɛt l/

Gunmetal is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in gunmetal (aeglmntu).

Definitions for gunmetal

noun

1. any of various alloys or metallic substances with a dark gray or blackish color or finish, used for chains, belt buckles, etc.
2. Also called gunmetal gray. a dark gray with bluish or purplish tinge.
3. a bronze formerly much used for cannon.
4. an alloy of 88 percent copper, 10 percent tin, and 2 percent zinc, cast or machined for use in valves, gears, and other parts.

Origin of gunmetal

First recorded in 1535-45; gun¹ + metal

Examples for gunmetal

Beyond the reefs the sea was gunmetal under the stars, streaked with foam and shadow.

The gyroscope is contained in a gunmetal case, and is driven by a jet of steam entering through the trunnions.

Then he swings around in his swivel chair and proceeds to size me up through them gunmetal gray eyes of his.

Better go hungry than forego a gunmetal or the ninety-eight-cent one that the railroads—according to these watchmakers—are run by.

The boat chocks are provided with gunmetal wheels, which run in transverse tracks sunk in the deck.

In Fig. 36, a, a is the body of the apparatus, partly of gunmetal and partly of wood.

The cellar was empty except for a large wooden tun or cask which reached almost to the ceiling, and a gunmetal hand pump.

Felix took from an inner pocket of his coat a gunmetal cigarcase.

The whole should be of gunmetal, and, if the pipes to be used be of iron, screwed at the end.

The procession stretched for miles beneath a warm drizzle and a gunmetal gray sky.