gun pit en · NOUN
Etymology
From gun + pit.
Meanings
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An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.
On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 152:
- The compartment for a gunner and gun in a fighter aircraft.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gun pits | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| gunpit | alternative | lexicographic |