Gun is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GUN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to shoot with a gun (a portable firearm)
• shoot someone with a gun
• cause (an engine) to race
• accelerate (a vehicle)
• To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
• cause (an engine) to run at high speed
NOUN:
• a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.
• a device for discharging a particular object or substance in a required direction
• a starting pistol used in athletics.
• the firing of a piece of artillery as a salute or signal
• a gunman
• a member of a shooting party.
• muscular arms; well-developed biceps muscles
• weapon with a tube from which missiles are fired
• A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
• A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
• Violent blasts of wind.
• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
• large but transportable armament
• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
• a professional killer who uses a gun
• a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
• a pedal that controls the throttle valve
• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
• used as a nickname for a ship's gunnery officer.

Words related to GUN

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How to use GUN in a sentence

• I hated to part with my gun, but my suggestion of leaving it was a part of the plan of escape which I had arranged.
• At last, the Sumter gun was heard booming through the gathering storm.
• He had not the slightest desire to go after his gun.
• Next his gun, which he had leaned against a tree, while on hands and knees he had forced his way into some brush, was swallowed up in the darkness.
• The Indian took the gun, after he had seen it loaded by Sir Christopher, and imitating his actions, discharged it at a bird sitting on a bough, at no great distance.
• The destruction of its gun was therefore of the highest importance.
• Rushing out I saw the edges of the hills twinkle with lines of flashes right away to Gun Hill and Bulwan.
• Later Miss Travers went to her room and wrote a letter, and then the sunset gun shook the window, and twilight settled down upon the still frozen earth.
• Just how the problem of aiming and firing a big gun differs from that of aiming and firing small arms is not so easily explained.
• Precisely at noon, aided by his officers and in the presence of Marston, Belfast, and the Gun Club Committee, the Captain took his observations.
• He reached up, found it unlocked, and then with his ray gun ready, kicked the door open.
• The gun is fired at a fixed elevation, and is so small and light that it can readily be moved and set up by a couple of men in a few minutes.
• The gun was the invention of a retired admiral who lived in a farmhouse nearby and who, when it was loaded, fired it off by pressing an electric button.
• When we consider the extreme range of a seventeen-inch gun as being not far short of thirty miles, the difficulty of being out of range is at once apparent.
• He leveled his gun at a spot just below the right hand window, where the wall rose up out of the floor.
• Directly opposite her, on a corner of the settle, was her berry bucket, and near it stood the gun, propped against the wall.
• Any one but a fool, or a very young child, knows at once that a gun with caps on is loaded.
• The gun lay rejected and much in the way until its buyer came to his own rescue and agreed to pay for the mounting.
• And of all the narrer-chested, weak-eyed, slack-baked, spindly-legged sons of a gun you ever saw in your life, he is the worst.
• The members of the Gun Club did not know which to listen to.
• The honourable secretary of the Gun Club wished to observe for himself the vehicle that contained his audacious friends.
• A piece of furniture gnawed by worms, a gun with a broken trigger, a warped drawer, or the soul of a violin suddenly out of tune, such are the ills which move me.
• The interruption to the previous profound quiet, was as sudden as the report of a gun, and it became general, as it were, in an instant.
• When everybody had emptied his gun, each outfit broke back to its wagon to reload.
• In order to not miss a possible bit of water we separated and agreed upon a general course, and that if either one found water he should fire his gun as a signal.

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