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gun carriage

gun carriage noun: a metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.

gun carriage: a metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation
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Noun

gun carriage (plural gun carriages)

  1. A metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.
    • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    carriage[Appendix:Glossary

gun carriage meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Malay

gun carriage in Tamil

பீரங்கி வண்டி

gun carriage in Kannada

ಫಿರಂಗಿ ಗಾಡಿ

gun carriage in Arabic

metal frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation
كُرْسِيّ kursiyy, قَنْدَاق qandāq

gun carriage in Malay

metal frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation
pedati meriam
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gun carriage in Indonesian
pedati meriam

Synonyms of gun carriage

  • carriage[Appendix:Glossary

Forms of gun carriage

pluralgun carriages

Questions about gun carriage

What does gun carriage mean?
Gun carriage means a metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.
What is gun carriage in Tamil?
Gun carriage in Tamil is பீரங்கி வண்டி. See Gun carriage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gun carriage?
Gun carriage is a noun.
What is the plural of gun carriage?
The plural of gun carriage is gun carriages.

Words near gun carriage in the dictionary

  1. gun barrels
  2. gun boat
  3. gun boats
  4. gun brush
  5. gun brushes
  6. gun carriage
  7. gun carriages
  8. gun club
  9. gun clubs
  10. gun control
  11. gun cotton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gun carriage (page history and authors); gun carriage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gun carriage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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