Whitworth gun: Definition and part of speech

Whitworth gun

  1. A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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