Gunshot-wound. Any wound received from the discharge of cannon or fire-arms.
GUNSMITH, a man who makes fire-arms.
GUNSTICK. The rammer or stick with which the charge is driven into the gun.
GUNSTOCK. The wood to which the barrel of the gun is fixed.
GUNSTONE. Such materials, chiefly stone, as were formerly discharged from artillery.
GUR, a house or dwelling in India.
GURRIES, mud forts made in India are so called. These forts are sometimes surrounded with ditches.
GURRY, an indian term to express a certain division of time, comprehending 24 minutes; but the word among the Europeans is generally understood to mean an hour. A watch is called a gurry.
GUALIOR, a stupendous military fortification on the summit of a rocky eminence in India, south of Jumma, 28 coss, or 56 English miles, from Agra. It was once taken by a daring enterprize by Col. Popham.
GHYRETTY, cantonments seven coss (14 English miles) from Calcutta. It is a palace built by Mr. Dupleix, which the British took by force in 1797, and imprisoned the principal French colonists of Chandernagore there. This was two years before the war in Europe.