gunned, a.
(gʌnd)
[f. gun n. + -ed2.]
Furnished with guns: chiefly qualified by advs., as heavily gunned, lightly gunned, powerfully gunned = having heavy, etc. guns.
| 1659 D. Pell Impr. Sea 177 note, To fight against all the Navies, and Gunn'd Armadoes in the world. Ibid. 555 note, Many a ship that is well rigged,..manned, and gunned. 1666 Lond. Gaz. No. 66/1 His ships were all of them old, and neither man'd nor gun'd. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. ii. 19 He was attacked by three French Ships, each gunn'd and mann'd as well as he. 1804 Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1846) VI. 282 The Schooner is far too heavily gunned. 1865 Cornh. Mag. Aug. 223 That company of men..shooting-coated, gunned, and belted. 1897 C. Bigham With Turkish Army Thessaly iii. 22 Artillery..was excellently horsed and gunned, but poorly trained. |