Crossword-Solution: GUNNERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gunnery | n. | That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “GUNNERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CONSTRUCTION of large guns | 1 answer |
| FIRING of guns | 1 answer |
| GUNS, construction and management of large | 1 answer |
| Practice of firing in large plant losing a year | 1 answer |
| Science of flight of projectiles. | 1 answer |
| Type of sergeant | 1 answer |
| Use of heavy weapon systems | 1 answer |
| arms manufacture | 1 answer |
| Military science. | 4 answers |
| gunfire | 19 answers |
| fusillade | 26 answers |
| Volley | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with GUNNERY (5)
The Trinity test took place on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, about 230 miles south of the Manhattan Project's headquarters at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
The ranch was abandoned in 1942 when the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range took over the land to use in training World War II bombing crews.
Instruction is very detailed and thorough as befits a career which, in addition to embracing the endless problems of flight, demands knowledge of wireless telegraphy, photography, and machine gunnery.
GENERAL: In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin", When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat", When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery- - In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy, You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
Therefore, as I said at the time, a great work was done very reasonably; here were nigh upon forty Doones destroyed (in the valley, and up at The Warrens) despite their extraordinary strength and high skill in gunnery; whereas of us ignorant rustics there were only sixteen to be counted dead--though others might be lamed, or so,--and of those sixteen only two had left wives, and their wives did not happen to care for them.
Quotes with GUNNERY (3)
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century.
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1943–2004).