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wire guns

wire guns is the plural of wire gun.

Meaning of wire gun

Noun

wire gun (plural wire guns)

  1. A former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.
    • Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich - even from the north; among others, long wire guns of ninety-five tons from Woolwich.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 126

Questions about wire guns

What is wire guns the plural of?
Wire guns is the plural of wire gun.

Words near wire guns in the dictionary

  1. wire gold
  2. wire golds
  3. wire grass
  4. wire grasses
  5. wire gun
  6. wire guns
  7. wire in
  8. wire line
  9. wire mattress
  10. wire mattresses
  11. wire netting

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