Gunnery is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUNNERY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the use of guns
• the design, manufacture, or firing of heavy guns
• use or science of large guns
• That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
• guns collectively

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How to use GUNNERY in a sentence

• If you are a novice in gunnery it will be safest for you to put the shot in before the powder.
• It was simply magnificent as a display of real efficient gunnery.
• The proof of the superiority of American gunnery was demonstrated in every naval battle.
• The shot was seen skipping along the water, at a safe distance from the leading boat certainly, and yet sufficiently near to make it pass for indifferent gunnery.
• Elementary Instruction in Naval Ordnance and Gunnery.
• Manual of Gunnery Instructions for the Navy of the United Slates.
• At Constantia Farm they gave us a gunnery duel, which, though incessant and continuous, did little real damage to either side.
• All through the action they continued the routine of gunnery just as if they were out for exercise on the sands.
• Nevertheless, the result cannot be deemed creditable to the French captains or gunnery.
• Peter then sent fifty young nobles of the court to Venice, England, and the Netherlands to learn the arts of shipbuilding and seamanship and gunnery.
• It was, in fact, an exhibition of that magnificent gunnery which was so evident in the war of 1812, and which was to be shown again in the war with Spain.
• Simultaneously with the improvement in musketry, a great advance was made in gunnery.
• What were the sentinels doing, I wondered? The explanation I heard later from a French gunnery lieutenant.
• Until we were relieved the Germans battered at it with gunnery all day and attacks all night.
• Any kind of gunnery from those vantage-spots would guard the press.
• GENERAL DUTIES OF OFFICERS IN RELATION TO ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY, AND TO MILITARY EQUIPMENTS AND EXERCISES.
• Then once more the silence which was more trying than gunnery settled.
• When he returned to America later he inaugurated reforms which increased the efficiency of the gunnery in the service 100 per cent.
• The fact is, as was agreed between the two services at Malta, the whole principle of naval gunnery is different from the principles of garrison or field artillery shooting.
• But these naval airmen, bold fellows, always on for an adventurous attack, are hardly in their element when carrying out the technical gunnery part of our work.
• Never have I seen such a memento of splendid gunnery, as that written large in shell-holes on that field.
• It was an awful example of the difference between accurate gunnery and firing at random.
• It does explain, however, the attraction of gunnery to gunners.
• It is a tireless game of hide and seek, like gunnery at the front.
• George desired to master gunnery instantly, and Resmith soothed him with the assurance that he would soon be sent away on a gunnery course, which would give him beans.
• But the science of gunnery can be taught to any man of average intelligence and natural aptitudes.
• As they climbed the mountain proper they found that Sunset, too, had engaged in some gunnery in those far-away ages, as was shown by many lava bombs lying about the base.
• As Professor of Artillery he was responsible for little more than the drill of the cadets and their instruction in the theory of gunnery.
• He invented a new type of vessel himself and thoroughly mastered scientific gunnery.
• Sir Howard Douglas, the chief authority on the subject, attempted in vain to explain British reverses by the deterioration of British gunnery.
• The strongest proof of American superiority was given by the best British officers, like Broke, who strained every nerve to maintain an equality with American gunnery.
• Instantly after the loss of the Guerriere the English discovered and complained that American gunnery was superior to their own.

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