gunneress

gunneress noun: a female gunner.

Noun

gunneress (plural gunneresses)

(nonstandard, rare) A female gunner.
- Away, then, away ! The seized cannon are yoked with seized cart-horses : brown-locked Demoiselle Theroigne, with pike and helmet, sits there as gunneress, "with haughty eye and serene fair countenance;" comparable, some think, to the Maid of Orleans.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
- ... France, the patroness of officers, the inimitable model of the pupils of Saint-Cyr, and the romantic Druidess, the inspired woman-soldier of the national guard, the patriot gunneress of the Republicans, ...1909, Anatole France, The Life of Joan of Arc

At Lille, a widow, Mary Guillot, was gunneress; and when she came to Paris the Jacobin Club invited her to sit on the President's right hand.1922, Winifred Stephens Whale, Women of the French Revolution, page 185:
The retired Israeli machine gunneress with the prolapsed uterus, for example: she dropped her intestines in the toilet one morning.2011, Donald O'Donovan, Tarantula Woman

plural	gunneresses

From gunner + -ess.

What does gunneress mean?: Gunneress means a female gunner.
How do you use gunneress in a sentence?: At Lille, a widow, Mary Guillot, was gunneress; and when she came to Paris the Jacobin Club invited her to sit on the President's right hand.
What part of speech is gunneress?: Gunneress is a noun.
What is the plural of gunneress?: The plural of gunneress is gunneresses.

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