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Definition of Naval gun
1. Noun. Naval weaponry consisting of a large gun carried on a warship.
Specialized synonyms: Stern Chaser
Group relationships: Combat Ship, War Vessel, Warship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Naval Gun
Literary usage of Naval gun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"naval gun-SIGHTS.1 Preliminary definitions. (1) The axis of the bore of a gun is
its longitudinal geometrical axis. (2) The axis of training of a gun is the ..."
2. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage. Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER XXXIII The 4-inch naval gun—Captain Bayly Provost-Marshal—The West
Arsenal—British refugees uncared for—Operations against the West Arsenal—A ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects by Royal Institution of Naval Architects (1875)
"Starting, then, from our old naval great gun of 95 cwt. and 8 inches bore, as
the naval gun of the past, what should we have taken as the gun of the future ..."
4. South Africa and the Transvaal War by Louis Creswicke (1900)
"... naval gun ON IMPROVISED MOUNTING by a shell in the left knee and right foot,
was promoted to the rank of Commander in Her Majesty's fleet for special ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"The modern naval gun can fire and, as experience has shown, with considerable
... The powder chamber of the naval gun is larger and the range, other things ..."
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