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Gun carriage

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Noun
  1. 1
    A metal or wooden frame on which a piece of ordnance is mounted for firing or transportation.

    "But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them."

  2. 2
    a framework on which a gun is mounted for firing wordnet

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