GUN-LADLE. See [Ladle].
GUN-LOD. A vessel filled with combustibles, but rather for explosion than as a fire-ship.
GUN-METAL. The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining much of the tenacity of the former, and much harder than either of the components; but the late improved working of wrought-iron and steel has nearly superseded its application to guns.
GUNNADE. A short 32-pounder gun of 6 feet, introduced in 1814; afterwards termed the shell-gun.
GUNNEL. See [Gunwale].
GUNNELL. A spotted ribbon-bodied fish, living under stones and among rocks.
GUNNER, of a Ship of War. A warrant-officer appointed to take charge of the ammunition and artillery on board; to keep the latter properly fitted, and to instruct the sailors in the exercise of the cannon. The warrant of chief-gunner is now given to first-class gunners.—Quarter-gunners. Men formerly placed under the direction of the gunner, one quarter-gunner being allowed to every four guns. In the army, gunner is the proper title of a private soldier of the Royal Artillery, with the exception of those styled drivers.
GUNNER-FLOOK. A name among our northern fishermen for the Pleuronectes maximus, or turbot.
GUNNER'S DAUGHTER. The name of the gun to which boys were married, or lashed, to be punished.
GUNNER'S HANDSPIKE. Is shorter and flatter than the ordinary handspike, and is shod with iron at the point, so that it bites with greater certainty against the trucks of guns.