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gun pits

gun pits is the plural of gun pit.

Meaning of gun pit

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.

Questions about gun pits

What is gun pits the plural of?
Gun pits is the plural of gun pit.

Words near gun pits in the dictionary

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  9. gun range
  10. gun ranges
  11. gun rights

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