GPage 172
- English Word Gunny cloth Definition A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.
- English Word Gunocracy Definition See Gyneocracy.
- English Word Gunpowder Definition A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
- English Word Gunreach Definition The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
- English Word Gunroom Definition An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy.
- English Word Gunshot Definition Act of firing a gun; a shot.
- English Word Gunshot Definition The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
- English Word Gunshot Definition Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
- English Word Gunsmith Definition One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
- English Word Gunsmith ing Definition The art or business of a gunsmith.
- English Word Gunsmithery Definition Alt. of Gunsmith ing
- English Word Gunstick Definition A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
- English Word Gunstock Definition The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
- English Word Gunstome Definition A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.
- English Word Gunter rig Definition A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.
- English Word Gunter's chain Definition The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See Chain, n., 4, and Gunter's scale.
- English Word Gunter's line Definition A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers.
- English Word Gunter's quadrant Definition A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
- English Word Gunter's scale Definition A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
- English Word Gunwale Definition The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.
- English Word Gurding Definition of Guard
- English Word Gurge Definition A whirlpool.
- English Word Gurge Definition To swallow up.
- English Word Gurgeons Definition See Grudgeons.
- English Word Gurgeons Definition Coarse meal.
- English Word Gurgle Definition To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
- English Word Gurgle Definition The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."
- English Word Gurgled Definition of Gurgle
- English Word Gurglet Definition A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.
- English Word Gurgling Definition of Gurgle