Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunlayers
Literary usage of Gunlayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. R.U.S.I. and Brassey's Defence Yearbook by Royal United Services Institute Staff, Thomas Allnutt Brassey Brassey (1906)
"My Lords desire to emphasize the fact that battle efficiency entirely depends on
the successful combination of officers, gunlayers, guns' crews, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1910)
"... lowering, loading, and firing—this was the business of artificers or labourers
kept for the purpose ' ; and the European gunlayers had therefore ample ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1907)
"The completed results of the gunlayers' test in the British Fleet showed a
considerable further advance in marksmanship, tin- percentage of hits to rounds ..."
4. The Dover Patrol 1915-1917 by Reginald Bacon (1919)
"It is very hard to say how useful it was, it being almost impossible for the
gunlayers to know where their shots were going. The night was very dark, ..."
5. The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford by Charles Beresford (1914)
"Those captains of guns, including the Royal Marines, who had made five hits or
more in the gunlayers* competition, 117 in number, were formed into a company ..."
6. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1910)
"Much depends also upon the ability and experience of the officer controlling the
fire, and upon the ability with which the gunlayers perform their duties. ..."
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