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gun pit

gun pit noun: an excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.

Noun

gun pit (plural gun pits)

  1. An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.
    • On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 152
  2. The compartment for a gunner and gun in a fighter aircraft.

Forms of gun pit

pluralgun pits
alternative formgunpit

Origin of gun pit

From gun + pit.

Questions about gun pit

What does gun pit mean?
Gun pit means an excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.
What part of speech is gun pit?
Gun pit is a noun.
What is the plural of gun pit?
The plural of gun pit is gun pits.

Words near gun pit in the dictionary

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