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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 guns
Familiarity information: GUNSMITH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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