Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of a gun's crew on a war-ship whose duty it is to keep the gun-sight set at the proper elevation for the range as shown by the range-indicator, so that the gun-pointer can keep his eye continuously at the gun-sight.
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D-Kittery, was a gun sight-setter on the SS Hadley F.
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