Definitions
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- noun A
hatch in thehull of aship through which acannon is fired.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The five executioners, certified police officers who volunteered for the task and remain anonymous, stood about 25 feet away, behind a wall cut with a gunport, and were armed with matching. 30-caliber Winchester rifles.
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The five executioners, certified police officers who volunteered for the task and remain anonymous, stood about 25 feet away, behind a wall cut with a gunport, and were armed with matching. 30-caliber Winchester rifles.
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And though Monk dared not look out the gunport while disgraced, he thought he knew the reason for this surprising outburst.
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One man was seen trying to escape from a gunport and was swept back inside by the power of the water.
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A gunport opened at the Prince of Wales's bow to return the salute that the Cleopatra was firing as she passed.
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Men put in powder bags and shot, rammed them home, then hauled the weapon's muzzle out through the gunport with the rope-and-pulley tackles fixed on either side of the carriage.
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Sharpe gave Hopper a coin, touched his hat to Mister Collier, thanked the boat's crew and stepped up onto the platform from where he climbed to the main deck past an open gunport in which a polished cannon muzzle showed.
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Three of the Pucelle's heavy guns fired together, their sound almost stunning Sharpe, who was going from gunport to gunport and stabbing at the French with his cutlass.
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A Midshipman fired a pistol into an enemy gunport.
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The man lunged his cutlass at Sharpe, had it effortlessly parried, saw death in the redcoat's face and so, in desperation, squirmed through a gunport and threw himself down between the ships.
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