gunmetal

A bronze from which cannon were formerly cast. Ordinarily nine parts copper and tiny Other metals have been me times added to or substituted for tin, copper still remaining the basis of the alloy. IMG:content-0852.png:[blocks in formation] gun-tackle, s. Naut.: The ropes and pulleys attached to the sides of the ports, and to the gun-carriage (for light or smooth-bore guns), by which the gun is run out. It consists of two single blocks, one movable and the other fixed, the standing end of the fall being secured to the movable block. gun, v. i. [GUN, 8.] To shoot with a gun; to go fowling. "There is le danger in't than gunning, Sanchio." Beaum. & Flet.: Rule a Wife, i. 2. gūną, s. [Sansc.,=quality.] Philol.: A term used, especially in Sanscrit grammar, to denote the changing of i and i to ē , u and u to ō , ri and ri to ar , by compounding them with the prefix à : thus a + i , or i = ē , a + u , or ū = ō , .