Gunneress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female gunner. nonstandard, rare

    "Away, then, away ! The seized cannon are yoked with seized cart-horses : brown-locked Demoiselle Theroigne, with pike and helmet, sits there as gunneress, "with haughty eye and serene fair countenance;" comparable, some think, to the Maid of Orleans."

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"Away, then, away ! The seized cannon are yoked with seized cart-horses : brown-locked Demoiselle Theroigne, with pike and helmet, sits there as gunneress, "with haughty eye and serene fair countenance;" comparable, some think, to the Maid of Orleans."

Etymology

From gunner + -ess.

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