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gunsights

gunsights is the plural of gunsight.

Meaning of gunsight

Noun

gunsight (plural gunsights)

  1. An optical instrument which establishes an optical line or axis for the purpose of aiming a weapon.
    1. In particular, especially in allusions and comparisons, a notch.
      • I could just see the nick, like a gunsight, in the ridge of rock through which the road passes into the coastal plain of Tihamah. The nick is called Bab al-Naqah, the Gate of the She-Camel, after an unmistakable humped rock by the road.2011, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Yemen

Questions about gunsights

What is gunsights the plural of?
Gunsights is the plural of gunsight.

Words near gunsights in the dictionary

  1. Gunshore
  2. gunshot
  3. gunshots
  4. gunshy
  5. gunsight
  6. gunsights
  7. gunsite
  8. gunsites
  9. gunsling
  10. gunslinger
  11. gunslinger effect

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