Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business of a gunsmith; the art of making small firearms; also, a place where the business of a gunsmith is carried on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or business of a gunsmith.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
gunsmith 'sworkshop .
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Examples
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And Verty, with the variousness in his interventionist millston, blows away the gunsmithery from the canvas.
Inadvertent poetic prose in spamblogs | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006
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In this work Comrade Kalashnikov displayed indisputable talent in designing the submachine gun, especially if one takes into consideration his insufficient technical education and a total lack of experience in gunsmithery.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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Captain Galliot, a specialist in gunsmithery, who overheard this remark, also heard him say to the Minister of Aviation,
Georges Guynemer Bordeaux, Henry, 1870- 1918
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Captain Galliot, a specialist in gunsmithery, who overheard this remark, also heard him say to the M.nister of Aviation, M. Daniel Vincent, who was inspecting the camp at Buc: "It is not by clever flying that you get rid of a Boche, but by hard and sharp shooting."
Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Henry Bordeaux 1916
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