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Minute gun   /mˈɪnət gən/   Listen
Minute gun

noun
1.
(military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral).






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"Minute gun" Quotes from Famous Books



... at sea, and remembered when he used to fancy it would be the height of felicity to have a shipwreck at Redclyffe, and shocked Mrs. Bernard by inhuman wishes that a ship would only come and be wrecked. How often had he watched, through sounds like these, for a minute gun! Nay, he had once actually called up poor Arnaud in the middle of the night for an imaginary signal. Redclyffe Bay was a very dangerous one; a fine place for a wreck, with its precipitous crags, its single safe landing-place, and the great Shag Stone, on the eastern ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Minute gun" :   military, gun, war machine, armed forces, armed services, military machine



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