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gun

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1. gun - Noun

2. gun - Verb

4. Gun - Proper noun

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of Gin

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.

A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.

Violent blasts of wind.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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he stepped on the gas Source: Internet

two runners started before the gun Source: Internet

a twenty gun salute Source: Internet

A 34-year-old Delhi Police constable allegedly shot himself dead with his service gun on Friday night in south Delhi’s Vasant Vihar, said an offier on Saturday. Source: Internet

A 27-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested in San Carlos early this morning for attempting to burglarize a gun store. Source: Internet

About 2:30 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person with a gun in an alley near the 5700 block of South Racine and saw a man matching the description take off on foot, Deputy Chief Yolanda Talley told reporters. Source: Internet

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