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gunwright en · NOUN

Etymology

From gun + wright.

Meanings

1. A maker of guns.
   • Many of them were sent to the provincial gunsmiths, and good Samuel Miller, locksmith and gunwright, labored long and wearily to put the uncouth weapons into something like effective shape for his discontented countrymen. 1898, Charles Winslow Hall, Cartagena, page 89:
   • At the start of the century, widows in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston were printers, shoemakers, engravers, and silversmiths, and sometimes blacksmiths, shipbuilders, or gunwrights. 1999, S. J. Kleinberg, Women in the United States, 1830-1945, page 16:

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