Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stone used for the shot of a catapult or cannon. Before the invention of iron balls, stones were commonly used as projectiles.
- noun A flint prepared for insertion in the lock of a gun. See
flint-lock .
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- noun obsolete A
cannonball .
Etymologies
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gun + stone: they were originally made from stone.
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Examples
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The brute landed with the force and grace of an enormous gunstone, square on the roof of the small wagon.
The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993
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"In 1541, William Levett was the royal" gunstone maker ", that is, he made cast iron cannon-balls at a foundry in the Weald built by his elder brother in 1534.
Barista 2009
hernesheir commented on the word gunstone
In heraldry, a roundel of sable color. Also ogress, pellet.
October 5, 2011