gunroom

[Eng.gun, and room.] Naut.: A room on one of the lower decks of a ship of war, in which the junior executive and noncombatant officers live, except the warrant officers and, in some cases, the junior engineers. The senior officers of the navy and the marines live in IMG:content-0854.png:[blocks in formation] "Gunshots were wildly fired in all directions."-маcaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xi. 2. The distance to which a shot can be thrown with effect by a gun; the range of a gun or cannon. "The parliament did not intend to embark them in the perils of war, while themselves sate securely at home out of gunshot." - Clarendon: Hist. Rebel., ii., 567. B. As adj.: Made or caused by a shot from a gun. "Great hath been the contention among the learned about fire and venom in gunshot wounds." Wiseman: On Surgery, bk. vi.