GUN PORT

Definition: GUN PORT

GUN PORT

1. (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: GUN PORT

View on the monitor's deck, probably taken while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, in 1864-65. Probably photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Note her turret, with a XV" Dahlgren smoothbore in one gun port (center) and a smaller gun (probably an 8" Parrott rifle) in the other. Also note armored pilothouse atop the turret, armor plates and turret base ring added to the ship on the basis of combat experience, the 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzer mounted on an iron field carriage, and the bitt in the foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Officers on deck, probably on the James River in the spring of 1865. Note gun port covers hung on the monitor's turret, apparent shot hole in the bullet-proof iron screen at the turret top, and bell on the turret side. Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed during the Civil War, circa 1862-65. The pivot gun port, just forward of the smokestack, is closed in this view. The original photograph is the left side of a stereograph pair. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Serbo-Croatian

ambrazura. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: uptorn.

-2 letters: group, grout, grunt, prong, punto, puton, ungot.

-3 letters: gorp, gout, grot, pong, porn, port, pour, pout, prog, pung, punt, roup, rout, rung, runt, tong, torn, tour, trop, trug, tung, turn, unto, upon.

-4 letters: gnu, gor, got, gun, gut, nog, nor, not, nut, opt, ort, our, out, pot, pro, pug, pun, pur, put.

+1 letter: trouping.

+2 letters: posturing, purgation, sprouting, uprooting.

+3 letters: corrupting, groupthink, intergroup, outpouring, outpraying, outpricing, posturings, protruding, purgations, purporting, supporting, upthrowing.

+4 letters: expurgation, groupthinks, importuning, outcapering, outcropping, outdropping, outpourings, outpowering, outpreening, outpressing, outtrumping, pirouetting, prognathous, prosecuting, recomputing, resprouting, sporulating, superstrong, thoroughpin.

+5 letters: autographing, compurgation, expurgations, multipronged, outcroppings, outpreaching, outproducing, outpromising, outsparkling, outspreading, outsprinting, outstripping, overtrumping, precomputing, promulgating, promulgation, prostituting, repopulating, rustproofing, thoroughpins, unstoppering, upholstering.

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