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名詞

gunwright (複数形 gunwrights)

1. A maker of guns.
   • 1898, Charles Winslow Hall, Cartagena, page 89:

     Many of them were sent to the provincial gunsmiths, and good Samuel Miller, locksmith and gunwright, labored long and wearily to put the uncouth weapons into something like effective shape for his discontented countrymen.

   • 1999, S. J. Kleinberg, Women in the United States, 1830-1945, page 16:

     At the start of the century, widows in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston were printers, shoemakers, engravers, and silversmiths, and sometimes blacksmiths, shipbuilders, or gunwrights.