单词 | gun-room |
释义 | gun-roomn. 1. a. In large ships of war, a compartment originally occupied by the gunner and his mates, but now fitted up for the accommodation of the junior officers; in smaller vessels, that used as a mess-room by the lieutenants. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > part of vessel where sailors live > in naval vessel gun-room1626 cockpit1691 gunner-rooma1698 wardroom1759 wardroom mess1887 pit1890 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 11 About the Gun-roome, the Tiller, the rudder, the pintels, the gudgions. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 360/2 The upper Gun-Room..is used for a Store-Room, Lodgings. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. 31 Oh now it begins, and the Gunroom grows hot, Plie it with Culverin and with small shot. 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 36 Upon the lower Gun-deck in Men of War there is an Apartment for the Gunner, called the Gun-room; it is for fitting and securing all his small Stores. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 211 The Gunner of the Ship..secured himself in the Gun-room. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. viii. 101 The first lieutenant had asked me to dine in the gun-room. 1884 D. Pae Eustace 86 You forget..that I shall be in the gun-room, and he in the forecastle. b. attributive, as gun-room bulkhead, gun-room gossip, gun-room gun, gun-room hour, gun-room officer, gun-room steward; gun-room ports n. stern ports cut through the gun-room in a frigate (Hamersly Naval Encycl. 1881). ΚΠ 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 27 We struck two of our Gun-room Guns into the Hold. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 32 They lowered down a bucket out of the cabbin-window, into which the gunner, out of one of the gun-room ports, put a quantity of pistol cartridges. 1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 61 The Gunroom hour to dine is long since past. 1855 A. West Recoll. (1899) I. vi. 212 The gunroom officers had asked us to dinner. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 6 Nov. 3/2 The Doctor's cabin was next to the gun-room bulkhead. 1898 Daily News 9 Nov. 6/3 They..talk the most knowing gun-room gossip. 2. A room in which guns are kept. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons > gunroom gun-room1773 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 18 Your worship must not tell the story of Ould Grouse in the gun-room. 1883 W. Black Shandon Bells xxvi It is like the place too—the gun-room even, and the stuffed birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1626 |
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