the art, practice, or act of hunting game with guns
gunning in American English
(ˈɡʌnɪŋ)
noun
1.
the act, practice, or art of shooting with guns; gunnery
2.
the hunting of game with guns
Word origin
[1555–65; gun1 + -ing1]This word is first recorded in the period 1555–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chorus, corona, halo, incompatible, straddle-ing is a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or itsresult, product, material, etc. (the art of building; a new building; cotton wadding). It is also used to form nouns from words other than verbs (offing; shirting). Verbal nouns ending in -ing are often used attributively (the printing trade) and in forming compounds (drinking song). In some compounds (sewing machine), the first element might reasonably be regarded as the participial adjective, -ing, the compound thus meaning “a machine that sews,” but it is commonly taken as a verbalnoun, the compound being explained as “a machine for sewing”
All related terms of 'gunning'
gun
A gun is a weapon from which bullets or other things are fired .
machine gunning
the act of using a machine gun
gun for
If someone is gunning for you, they are trying to find a way to harm you or cause you trouble .
gun down
If someone is gunned down , they are shot and severely injured or killed .
machine-gun
A machine gun is a gun which fires a lot of bullets one after the other very quickly.
machine gunned
a rapid-firing automatic gun, usually mounted , from which small-arms ammunition is discharged