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gun-man, gunman|ˈgʌnmən|
1. One who is armed with a gun; one who shoots with a gun. (Formerly applied esp. to North American Indian warriors.) Also fig.
1624Gataker Transubst. 62 A gun-man (it may be) today, and a pike-man to morrow. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne II. 530 Gun-men of great ability and no common virtue. 1761Descr. S. Carolina 60 The Cherokees..have about Three Thousand Gun-Men. 1791W. Bartram Carolina 388 It is said they are able to muster five hundred gun-men or warriors. 1888Pall Mall G. 19 May 6 H...is not only a penman, but a gunman, a rodman, and a horseman. 1903N.Y. Sun 23 Nov. 1 A notorious outlaw and one of the most expert gun men of the West. 1913Industrial Worker (Spokane, Wash.) 3 July, Last evening one of the gunmen of the A.C.M. Co. came to the jail and tried to get a blacksmith out of here. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Oct. 4/7 The gunman who yesterday was foiled in his attempt to rob the Bank of Hamilton, robbed the Union Bank today. 1931Star 8 May 6/2 Lord Hailsham is rapidly making a name for himself in the House of Lords as a gunman of debate. 1946Koestler Thieves in Night xiv. 277 He seems to regard him as a kind of gunman-messiah. 1972Daily Tel. 13 Jan. 1 The Army said five IRA gunmen were shot and injured during the two-and-a-half-hour battle.
2. One who has to do with guns or is engaged in their manufacture.
1881Greener Gun 270 The strikes of the gunmen in Birmingham during the Crimean War.
Hence ˈgunmanship, the status, performance, or practice of a gunman.
1925L. O'Flaherty Informer vi. 78 We can imagine him perfecting himself in the arts of gunmanship. 1959I. Jefferies 13 Days ii. 29 We would practice academic gunmanship... The idea was to jerk the gun and fire it off like a rattle. 1965Economist 20 Feb. 791/1 Just how serious was London's recent outbreak of criminal gun⁓manship? |