Definitions for gunneries

gunneries gun·ner·y

Spelling: [guhn-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈgʌn ə ri/

Gunneries is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 293 anagrams from letters in gunneries (eeginnrsu).

Definitions for gunneries

noun

  1. the art and science of constructing and operating guns, especially large guns.
  2. the act of firing guns.
  3. guns collectively.

Origin of gunneries

First recorded in 1490-1500; gun1 + -ery

Examples for gunneries

"Come with me, and we'll get you togged out for the ride," said the gunnery lieutenant.

But Dennison had been a gunnery officer in the Navy and had seen his share of action.

Lanko flicked off the gunnery switches and leaned back, rubbing his head.

Fortunately their gunnery was very bad, or they might have cut them to pieces.

In gunnery, that which the axis of the bore makes with the plane of the horizon.

Ogle, however, continued to give proof that his knowledge of gunnery was not of yesterday.

gunnery was a closed corporation, and the gunner himself a guildsman.

This time there was no defect in the ordnance or the gunnery of the American ship.

gunnery Sgt. Tawanda Hanible said she joined the Marines after her brother enlisted, leaving behind her children to go to war.

Tawanda "Tee" Hanible, a gunnery sergeant in the Marine Corps, was among them.

Word Value for gunneries
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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