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- noun Plural form of
gunport .
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Examples
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Greensides, close to the top of Leith Walk, was fifteen years old, slabbed with obsolete fortification, pocked with likewise redundant gunports, and still referred to as ‘the new station’.
Well, Ken MacLeod agrees with me rather than with Jonathan Swift secritcrush 2009
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Along the parapet walls, rectangular gunports, about twelve inches tall, were cut into the three-foot-thick mud -- large enough to accommodate the swing of a rifle barrel at any advancing hordes below.
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Along the parapet walls, rectangular gunports, about twelve inches tall, were cut into the three-foot-thick mud -- large enough to accommodate the swing of a rifle barrel at any advancing hordes below.
Horse Soldiers Tripp 2009
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Water started to gush in through the open gunports.
The Disaster of the Vasa de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The nature of the homes varied but could include moats, curtain walls, a gatehouse and other towers, gunports and crenellated parapets.
Old Hollinside 2008
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The story of the Vasa is unfortunately a short one, she was built , she set sail and on her maiden voyage she capsized due to water coming in the open gunports on the lower deck.
Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Water started to gush in through the open gunports.
Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The story of the Vasa is unfortunately a short one, she was built , she set sail and on her maiden voyage she capsized due to water coming in the open gunports on the lower deck.
The Disaster of the Vasa de Brantigny........................ 2008
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There was an armored van moving through the streets, with bulletproof windows and gunports, and the men inside had submachine guns and tear-gas launchers.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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There was an armored van moving through the streets, with bulletproof windows and gunports, and the men inside had submachine guns and tear-gas launchers.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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