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gunpit

gunpit is the alternative form 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.

Forms of gunpit

pluralgunpits

Questions about gunpit

What is gunpit the alternative form of?
Gunpit is the alternative form of gun pit.

Words near gunpit in the dictionary

  1. gunpaper
  2. gunpapers
  3. gunpeople
  4. gunperson
  5. gunpersons
  6. gunpit
  7. gunplay
  8. gunplays
  9. gunpoint
  10. gunpoke
  11. gunpokes

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