gunmaking

1 5.6

Skilled work making and fixing guns

noun
/ˈɡʌnˌmeɪkɪŋ/

Specialized

: fabricación de armas

With virtually every gunmaking company held privately, the cost structure of the gun business has been difficult to ascertain.

Examples

Rinny had established himself as a skilled artisan at his father's gunmaking shop.

Fiction book (1998)
Rinny had established himself as a skilled artisan at his father's gunmaking shop.
One of the things I admire about Baer's gunmaking skills is his minimalist aesthetic.

Synonyms

gunsmithing

vsgunmaking

Specialized

1 7.1

The craft of making and repairing guns

is broader, also referring to skill or the commercial side of the craft

Surface Forms

gunmaking singular

gunmakings plural

Morphology

gunmaking = gun + making (transparent) = gun + make + ing

The compound combines 'gun' and the noun 'making' (the act of making), so the craft of making guns is directly inferable.

Etymology

Gunmaking is simply gun + making, so it literally means 'making guns'. The simple word gun probably comes from an old Norse word gunn meaning 'war' or from an old personal name, so thinking of guns as tools of 'war' helps explain why gunmaking is the craft of making weapons.