Noun:

துப்பாக்கி சுடுபவர்,

gunner's Usage Examples:

," or in the navy "rated petty officer," "seaman," "gunner," and so on.

He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other.

In the sky around the aircraft appeared little puffballs of smoke as the antiaircraft gunners on the warships brought their sights to bear.

A large camp was built to house an antiaircraft gunnery school.

But personally Peter learnt nearly all that he wanted to know - gunnery at Konigsberg, shipbuilding at Saardam and Deptford, anatomy at Leiden, engraving at Amsterdam - and was proceeding to Venice to complete his knowledge of navigation when the revolt of the slryeltsy, or musketeers (June 1698), recalled him to Moscow.

Six hundred Bohemian handgunners defended the tabor laager at the battle of Varna in 1444 AD.

One of the local names by which the bar-tailed godwit is known to the Norfolk gunners is scamell, a word which, in the mouth of Caliban (Tempest, 11.

Stocked with carp weighing up to 6lb, it flows into a small stream bordered by gunnera and the whole area attracts wildlife.

The Germans in addition had the inestimable advantage of having been in commission over two years and being in a state of prime gunnery efficiency, whereas the " Good Hope " and " Monmouth " were both 3rd Fleet ships, which had been lying idle in the dockyards, manned entirely with reserve men on the outbreak of war.

In these actions, except the last, the Americans had the advantage of greater size and a heavier broadside, but they showed excellent seamanship and gunnery.

Such a charge as prelude to the advance of a great infantry bayonet attack must have swept the exhausted Prussians down the hill like sheep, but the opportunity passed, and the gunners finding their position untenable, limbered up, not without severe losses, and retired to a second position in rear.

Fortunately a dense fog hid the helpless masses on the Landgrafenberg from sight of the Prussian gunners.

Synonyms:

military personnel, artilleryman, machine gunner, serviceman, man, military man, cannoneer,

Antonyms:

juvenile, woman, draftee, volunteer, civilian,