gunnery
3
7.9
- noun
- /ˈɡʌnəri/
- Specialized
:
tiro de artillería
- After 1942, he taught aerial gunnery at MacDill Field in Tampa.
- Gunnery Sergeant
- gunnery officer
- gunnery practice
Examples
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He's at sea on gunnery practice.
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No, it's gunnery practice out at sea, just as before you went below.
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Besides, the Air Force uses part of this as a gunnery range.
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Could it be some kind of gunnery practice?
Fiction book (1997) -
The U.S. government welcomed his volunteering for service and trained him at gunnery school, such that he was issued a gun or two.
Blog text (23) -
He was helping to train RAF pilots in gunnery, plane recognition, radio, and all these things.
Academic text (2014) -
On paper, the Royal Navy is heavily outgunned, but the British know they can rely on superior seamanship and faster gunnery to even the odds.
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In WW2, the USAAC built armored target drones so their pilots could practice aerial gunnery.
Blog text (30) -
He spent five years in the Pacific, first in the Battle of New Georgia and finally in the Battle for Balete Pass, serving with the Tropical Lightning Division as a gunnery sergeant.
Blog text (11) -
The soldiers underwent rigorous gunnery training to improve their marksmanship on the battlefield.
Synonyms
11
6.7
Ability to shoot a gun accurately
1
8.2
Skill in handling and shooting guns accurately and safely
Compounds
- Specialized
3
7.4
A senior Marine who trains and cares for junior Marines in the US Marine Corps
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gunnery can also use the ending -ery to mean 'the practice of', just like cookery is 'the practice of cooking'. So gunnery means the skill or art of using and firing guns, which is why it describes training and the science of artillery.