How do you spell Gun
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1) n. - 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.
2) n. - A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
3) n. - Violent blasts of wind.
4) v. i. - To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
5) n. - Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
6) n. - A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
7) n. - A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
8) n. - A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
9) v. t. - To catch in a trap.
10) v. t. - To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.
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