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- 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- English Word Gunstome Definition A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.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