Definitions for gunnery

gunnery gun·ner·y

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

Gunnery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in gunnery (egnnruy).

Definitions for gunnery

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 gunnery

First recorded in 1490-1500; gun1 + -ery

Examples for gunnery

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for gunnery
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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