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▪ I. gunning, vbl. n.|ˈgʌnɪŋ|
[f. gun n. and v. + -ing1.]
1. The practice or art of firing guns; gunnery.
1570Dee Math. Pref. 36 The record, where the occasion and order generall, of Gunning, is first discoursed of.
2. a. Shooting with a gun; esp. the act or practice of hunting game with guns.
1624Fletcher Rule a Wife i. ii, There is lesse danger in 't then gunning, Sanchio, Though we be shot sometimes the shot 's not mortall. 1655Sir J. Mennis & J. Smith Musarum Deliciæ 83 When there were shows of gunning and blows. 1726T. Smith Jrnl. (1849) 45 There has been the best gunning here this winter than has been for some years past. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 119 In the earlier times, the art of gunning was but little practised, and the hawk then was valuable. 1816Scott Antiq. xxii, He has had gunning and pistoling enough to serve him one while, I should think. 1846P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 265 My punts were all newly done up for gunning. 1851Thoreau Autumn (1894) 63 Farming is an amusement which has lasted him longer than gunning or fishing. 1882Sala Amer. Revis. (1885) 394 The sport which Western men call ‘gunning’.
b. (to go or be) a-gunning.
1689Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 294 Edward Shaftoe..goeing out into Gunnerton moores a gunning. 1734in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) App. 141 No Under⁓graduate..shall go a gunning, fishing, or scating over deep waters, without leave from the President or one of the Tutors. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 104 What luck a' gunnin'? 1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 172 Who is to be foolish enough to ‘go out a gunning’ upon the strength of two campaigns? 1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 174 Such of my acquaintances as love to write verses and go a-gunning.
3. Provision of guns. rare.
1675Marvell Let. to Corporat. Hull clxxii. Wks. 1776 I. 263 They differed concerning the ward ships; some insisting, that thereby was ment also rigging and gunning. 1917H. Macfall Germany at Bay (1918) 210 The enormous gunning and munitionment of the Germans made trench warfare a costly affair for such as had it not.
4. attrib. and Comb., as gunning-boat, gunning-feat, gunning-hut, gunning-matter, gunning-party, gunning-prowess, gunning-punt, gunning-shout (see quot. 1847); gunning-stick, a device used by lumbermen in guiding the falling of a tree.
1562W. Bullein Bk. Simples 72, I will..leaue Gunning matters to the Men of Warre. 1819P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 170 The gunning huts and straw decoy birds. 1851Zoologist IX. 3055 A gunner here [Weymouth] was telling me of his gunning feats. 1847Halliwell, Gunning-boat, a light and narrow boat in which the fenmen pursue the flocks of wild fowl along their narrow drains. Also called a gunning-shout. 1860C. Durfee Hist. Williams College 72 Accidentally shot dead, on a gunning party. 1863F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia 20 The robin redbreast..is not safe from the gunning prowess of the..sportsmen. 1883G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xix. 139 A gunning punt, with a couple of single-barrelled guns lying ready loaded in it. 1905Gunning-stick [see gun v. 1 e].
▪ II. gunning, ppl. a. rare.|ˈgʌnɪŋ|
[f. gun v. + -ing2.]
That shoots with a gun.
1883F. A. Walker Pol. Econ. 449 The lower elements of society, the gunning fishing tribe. |