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Gun-room

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Gun-room
    the apartment on board ship occupied by the gunner, or by the lieutenants as a mess-room
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. gonne, from W. gwn, a bowl, a gun, acc. to Skeat.

Usage in the news

What an unfathomable, boundary-crossing, guns-in-the-Wizards locker-room Gilbert Arenas-Javaris Crittenton grudge confrontation story. nypost.com

Guard's gun stolen in game room robbery. click2houston.com

The company behind the only armed robots in Iraq is rolling out a new model of gun-toting machine, built from the start for combat DANGER ROOM has exclusive pictures and footage. ired.com

Movies Watch Bill Murray's Brother Gun Down Dummies Tonight at Red Room. boiseweekly.com

Lawmaker's Wife Hurt in Gun Room Explosion. eastidahonews.com

Idaho Lawmaker's Wife Hurt in Gun Room Explosion. dio.com

Imagine your next-door neighbor — with whom you have had a long and bloody feud — pulling out a gun and shooting into your windows, from his own living room, which is densely packed with women and children. taipeitimes.com

One of Danger Room's very first posts was on the military's attempt build to make a puke ray gun – a non-lethal weapon that would make the target feel so dizzy, he just might hurl. ired.com

Radio Rumpus Room (Redux) on Dart Gun Radio this Wednesday, Jan 25 at midnight. kfai.org

Vac's Tuesday Whacks, on the toughest son of a gun in the room. nypost.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gilbert Arenas says he deserves to be punished for bringing guns to the locker room. nbc24.com

Eye-opening visit to city's Gun Room reveals scope of problem. philly.com

Kentucky State Police say an inmate at the Christian County jail shot himself with a jailer 's gun in a Hopkinsville hospital emergency room. courierpress.com

The manager told police that the gun malfunctioned and as the gunman attempted to fix the weapon, the manager and employee fled to a back room. kob.com

A freshman at USC was arrested and expelled after guns were found in his dorm room. 2.wspa.com

Usage in scientific papers

Of course there is a tiny probability of this, but we would guess that the chances of the appearance of the glider gun by random selection or evolution from a random state is similar to the probability of all the air in the room collecting in one corner.
Biologic

Usage in literature

He shook his head doubtingly, and referred to the difficulty of finding room for signal guns. "Fragments of science, V. 1-2" by John Tyndall

Those belonging to the gun-room were mostly men of this description, but one or two scarcely came up to it. "The Three Midshipmen" by W.H.G. Kingston

He had his gun ready, just in case, but there was no sign of anyone in the room he entered. "What The Left Hand Was Doing" by Gordon Randall Garrett

On a feed-box lay the gun Sam had handled while on guard in the sitting room. "An Undivided Union" by Oliver Optic

Shuffling all over the room and round about her was Mr. Gunning. "The Creators" by May Sinclair

Say so to the gun-room steward as you pass; and tell him it is my orders to fill you out a stiff nor-wester. "Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy" by Anonymous

In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Bates may have it in the gun room. "The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley" by Louis Tracy

Gun-room versus Ward-room, coming off this week. "The Submarine Hunters" by Percy F. Westerman

His gun, powder, and shot were in the next room, as he had been out hunting in the morning of that day. "Stories of Authors, British and American" by Edwin Watts Chubb

Usage in poetry
So while the guns of war are thundering fore and aft,
And you're shouting praise of men who fight for you,
Think of those who do their bit
In a seething furnace pit —
They're the heroes in the fire-room crew!