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nounthe sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship. Origin of gun crewFirst recorded in 1860–65 Words nearby gun crewgun brig, gun camera, gun carriage, gun control, guncotton, gun crew, gun deck, gundi, gun dog, gunfight, gunfighter Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gun crewThe American in command of the gun-crew was the only one who smiled, and he did it openly. West Wind Drift|George Barr McCutcheon A hurried conference of the ship's officers and the commander of the gun-crew resulted in a single but definite conclusion. West Wind Drift|George Barr McCutcheon Rexdale, who was closely noting the practice, hesitated, it being the strict rule that no one outside the gun-crew should fire. The North Pacific|Willis Boyd Allen The gun-crew fell back to mechanical automatic speed, muscle and sinew moving with the precision of things of steel. The Wonder of War on Land|Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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