Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunlayer
Literary usage of Gunlayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The "Novik" and the Part She Played in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904 by Andreĭ Petrovich Steer (1913)
"A small projectile passed over the poop, cut the gunlayer at one of the stern
... The gunlayer of the disengaged gun took the place of the one who had been ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"... gunlayer, 1st Cl. FCD STURDEE. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND MORNING. By SIR OWEN SEAMAN.
[From King Albert's Book.] YOU that have faith to look with fearless ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1921)
"The right gunlayer and trainer of " Y " turret in King George V. state that they
saw a torpedo break surface 400 yards short of King George V. 4. ..."
4. Submarine and Anti-submarine by Henry John Newbolt (1919)
"The shell passed between the legs of the foremost gunlayer, the drum of his ear
was perforated by the report, and there are some lumps and holes in the ..."
5. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
"... and gunlayer who are responsible for the work of the guns. When their ship
goes into action the men in the shell rooms and other munition stores know it ..."
6. The Merchant Seaman in War by Leslie Cope Cornford (1913)
"... the look-out in the crow's-nest and the gunlayer aft both reported "torpedo
on starboard quarter." The second officer, who was in charge of the watch, ..."
7. War's New Weapons: An Expert Analysis in Plain Language of the Weapons and by Hrolf von Dewitz (1915)
"The gunlayer in a coastal battery cannot see the target he is required to hit.
The range is plotted for him by an observer stationed, sometimes a mile away, ..."
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