gun pit
English
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- gunpit
Noun
- An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 152:
- On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin 2010, p. 152:
- The compartment for a gunner and gun in a fighter aircraft.
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