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Definition of Gunnage
1. n. The number of guns carried by a ship of war.
Definition of Gunnage
1. Noun. The number of guns carried by a ship of war. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gunnage
1. a total of guns on a war-ship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunnage
Literary usage of Gunnage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556-[1728]: Preserved in Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Treasury, Joseph Redington (1871)
"8d., which had been ordered into the hands of the treasurer and paymaster of the
office of ordnance for Capt. Walters, on account of gunnage : desiring them ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"... and how many knots we ran, are all noted down, no doubt, in the ship's log :
and as for what ships we saw—every one of them with their gunnage, tonnage, ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... are all notai down, no doubt, in the ship's log: anil as for what ships we
saw -every one of them with their gunnage, tonnage, their nation, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1872)
"... ship of twice his tonnage, and three times his gunnage ; and now his sailors
were delighted, having hope of prize-money. That they never got, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"... in the ship's log; and as for what ships we «aw— every one of them with their
gunnage, tonnage, their nation, their direction whither they were bound, ..."
6. Robert Blake, Admiral and General at Sea: Based on Family and State Papers by William Hepworth Dixon (1852)
"... and the two fleets—that of England, composed of sixty-eight ships of various
gunnage—that of Holland nearly but not quite equal to it in number of ships ..."
7. Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556-[1728]: Preserved in Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Treasury, Joseph Redington (1874)
"... and gunnage of prize ships taken into her Majesty's service, which were taken
from the enemy in the action at Vigo." Dated 30 Oct. 1704. ..."
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