Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gun especially designed for use in a revolving turret.
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Examples
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Lay a gun's crew of them behind a big turret-gun and watch them make lacework of a target at 11,000 yards.
The U-boat hunters 1912
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They aimed ahead; two five-inch guns added their clamor, and even a Hontoria turret-gun voiced its roar and sent its messenger.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Almost immediately he learned to puff, and in a very short time was rolling thick white clouds from him like a turret-gun in action.
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