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gunwrights

gunwrights is the plural of gunwright.

Meaning of gunwright

Noun

gunwright (plural gunwrights)

  1. A maker of guns.
    • Many of them were sent to the provincial gunsmiths, and good Samuel Miller, locksmith and gunwright, labored long and wearily to put the uncouth weapons into something like effective shape for his discontented countrymen.1898, Charles Winslow Hall, Cartagena, page 89

Questions about gunwrights

What is gunwrights the plural of?
Gunwrights is the plural of gunwright.

Words near gunwrights in the dictionary

  1. gunwoman
  2. gunwomen
  3. gunwork
  4. gunworks
  5. gunwright
  6. gunwrights
  7. gunya
  8. gunyah
  9. gunyahs
  10. gunyang
  11. gunyas

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