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Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Gunner :: Gunner (n.) A warrant officer in the navy having charge of the ordnance on a vessel.

Gunner :: Gunner (n.) The sea bream.

Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

Cartouch :: Cartouch (n.) A gunner's bag for ammunitio.

Gunpowder :: Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting..

Haversack :: Haversack (n.) A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery..

Bombardier :: Bombardier (n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.

Matross :: Matross (n.) Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns..

Artillery :: Artillery (n.) The science of artillery or gunnery.

Powder :: Powder (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder..

Yeoman :: Yeoman (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores..

Gunner :: Gunner (n.) One who works a gun, whether on land or sea; a cannoneer..

Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..

Gunner :: Gunner (n.) The great northern diver or loon. See Loon.

Monkeytail :: Monkeytail (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery..

Practice :: Practice (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music..

Gunnery :: Gunnery (n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance..

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