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Webster 1913 Edition


Gunning

Gun′ning

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Noun.
The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gunning

GUN'NING

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Noun.
The act of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

Definition 2024


gunning

gunning

English

Verb

gunning

  1. present participle of gun

Noun

gunning (plural gunnings)

  1. The act of firing a gun.
    • 2011, Gary Ferraro, ‎Susan Andreatta, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective (page 112)
      Philippe Bourgois [] witnessed shootings, muggings, bombings, machine-gunnings, fire bombings, and numerous fistfights, and he was manhandled by New York City police who mistook him for a drug dealer.