gun-room
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- Nautical, an apartment on the after part of the lower gun-deck of a man-of-war, devoted to the use of the junior officers.
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- In the captain's cabin, where the presence of the governor, our passenger, still kept up the strait-laced etiquette of the service, coats and epaulettes appeared at dinner; but in the gun-room, the officers, the instant they came below, slipped on their light white jackets, and, disdaining waistcoat, seized their flutes and books, and drew their chairs as near as possible to the mouth of the windsail. — The Lieutenant and Commander
- On arriving at the gun-room, he merely glances, with a well-bred air of assumed indifference, at the apartment of the officers, with whose habits and arrangements he scarcely ever ventures to meddle. — The Lieutenant and Commander
- Chairs from the cabin and gun-room are also placed abaft all, for the captain and officers, and on the lee side for the warrant-officers and mids; for it need scarcely be mentioned that due subordination is made to keep its place even in our church. — The Lieutenant and Commander
- The captain's and gun-room steward beg the carpenter's mate to drive down a few more cleats and staples, and, having got a cod-line or two from the boatswain's yeoman, or a hank of marline stuff, they commence double lashing all the tables and chairs. — The Lieutenant and Commander
- âA few days after the submarine inspection, the gun-room officers invited Sir Edward to dinner, to commemorate the 10th of June, the — The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
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