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单词 gun-room
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gun-roomn.

Brit. /ˈɡʌnruːm/, /ˈɡʌnrʊm/, U.S. /ˈɡənˌrum/, /ˈɡənˌrʊm/
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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.
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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
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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.
Proverb.1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iii. 56 I'm afraid we shall find a difficult Job on't. Pray Heaven that Old Rogue Coupler han't sent us to fetch Milk out of the Gunroom.
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).
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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.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > store of weapons or equipment > [noun] > place for storing weapons > gunroom
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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).
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