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GUNSMITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gunsmith mean? 

GUNSMITH (noun)
  The noun GUNSMITH has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes or repairs gunsplay

  Familiarity information: GUNSMITH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GUNSMITH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes or repairs guns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("gunsmith" is a kind of...):

smith (someone who works at something specified)


 Context examples 


It was a host of the stone age that we were accompanying to battle—we with the last word of the gunsmith's art from St. James' Street and the Strand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But she could not be long ungrateful; he was sacrificing an engagement at a gunsmith's, to be of use to her; and she set off with him, with no feeling but gratitude apparent.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)



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