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gunneresses

gunneresses is the plural of gunneress.

Meaning of gunneress

Noun

gunneress (plural gunneresses)

  1. (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)

Questions about gunneresses

What is gunneresses the plural of?
Gunneresses is the plural of gunneress.

Words near gunneresses in the dictionary

  1. gunner
  2. gunner's daughter
  3. gunnera
  4. gunneras
  5. gunneress
  6. gunneresses
  7. gunneries
  8. gunners
  9. Gunnersbury
  10. gunnership
  11. gunnerships

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