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noun
the structure on which a gun is mounted or moved and from which it is fired.
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Origin of gun carriage
First recorded in 1760â70
Words nearby gun carriage
guna,
gunboat,
gunboat diplomacy,
gun brig,
gun camera,
gun carriage,
gun control,
guncotton,
gun crew,
gun deck,
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How to use gun carriage in a sentence
âYou can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,â Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun â how hard was that, right?
They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.
Friasâwho was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxicationâwas not carrying a gun at the time.
He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.
A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.
This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.
He turned at the sound of my voice with vastly more concern than he'd betrayed under the muzzle of Piegan's gun.
"She did not think so:" why should she have taken the trouble to look out of the carriage window at me as she said these words?
British Dictionary definitions for gun carriage
noun
a mechanical frame on which a gun is mounted for adjustment and firing or for transportation
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