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Gun

noun

A weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel).

Large but transportable armament. Synonyms: artillery, heavy weapon, ordnance.

A person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability). Synonym: gunman.

A professional killer who uses a gun. Synonyms: gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman.

A hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine. Synonym: grease-gun.

A pedal that controls the throttle valve. Synonyms: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas, gas pedal, throttle.

The discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies. "A twenty gun salute"

verb

Shoot with a gun.

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"Gun" Quotes from Famous Books

... received the French officers, and informed them that her husband was not at home, the good old man was sitting in the hay-loft beside his guests, nursing them with the kindness of a father and the skill of an experienced physician. He had locked the door of his asylum, and a loaded gun and unsheathed sword were within his reach, in order forcibly to drive back the French, in case they should try to penetrate into ...

— Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia • L. Muhlbach

... for inside a minute I had them both blinded in their own blood. I gathered up rocks and had them flying when I heard a clatter of hoofs coming down the arroyo like a squadron of cavalry. They were so close on to me that I took to the brush, without hat, coat, or pistol. Men that pack a gun all their lives never have it when they need it; that was exactly my fix. Darkness was in my favor, but I had no more idea where I was or which way I was going than a baby. One thing sure, I was trying to get away from there as fast as I could. ...

— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams

... will wake no response unless it be an exclamation of disgust from soldiers and sailors and airmen. Of course, everyone knows that there is a sense in which reprisals are a necessary part of warfare. Generation after generation our forefathers fought bow to bow and sword to sword and gun to gun against equally armed and well-matched foes; this was reprisal, or, if you prefer, retaliation. And when, in more recent times, the devilish ingenuity of science invented poisonous gas, there was ...

— Prime Ministers and Some Others - A Book of Reminiscences • George W. E. Russell

... through the hole they've made in him," he rumbled. He wheeled on Mary and Dick. "So!" he shouted, "now it's murder!... Well, hand it over. Where's the gun?" ...

— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana

... others a soldier named Gant, of the 104th Ohio volunteers, presented a rebel battle-flag, which one of the officers stated to me was borne to the mouth of our cannon and planted there by a boy but seventeen years of age, who actually endeavor'd to stop the muzzle of the gun with fence-rails. He was kill'd in the effort, and the flag-staff was sever'd by a shot ...

— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman

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