ivers.

GUNNER-FLOOK. A name among our northern fishermen for the _Pleuronectes
maximus_, or turbot.

GUNNER'S DAUGHTER. The name of the gun to which boys were _married_, or
lashed, to be punished.

GUNNER'S HANDSPIKE. Is shorter and flatter than the ordinary handspike,
and is shod with iron at the point, so that it bites with greater
certainty against the trucks of guns.

GUNNER'S MATE. A petty officer appointed to assist the gunner.

GUNNER'S PIECE. In destroying and bursting guns, means a fragment of the
breech, which generally flies upward.

GUNNER'S QUADRANT. _See_ QUADRANT.

GUNNER'S TAILOR. An old rating for the man who made the cartridge-bags.

GUNNER'S YEOMAN. _See_ YEOMAN.

GUNNERY. The art of charging, pointing, firing, and managing artillery
of all kinds.

GUNNERY-LIEUTENANT. "One who, having obtained a warrant from a gunnery
ship, is eligible to large ships to assist specially in supervising the
gunnery duties; he draws increased pay."

GUNNERY-SHIP. A ship fitted for training men in the practice of
charging, pointing, and firing guns and mortars for the Royal Navy.
(_See_ SEAMEN-GUNNERS.)

GUNNING. An old term for shooting; it is now adopted by the Americans.
After the wreck of the _Wager_, on hearing the pistols fired at Cozens,
"it was rainy weather, and not fit for gunning, so that we could not
imagine the meaning of it."--_Gunning a ship._ Fitting her with
ordnance.--_Gunning_, in mining, is when the blast explodes and does not
rend the mass.--_Gunning_, signals enforced by guns.

GUNNING-BOAT, OR GUNNING-SHOUT. A light and narrow boat in which the
fen-men pursue the flocks of wild-fowl.

GUNNY. Sackcloth or coarse canvas, made of fibres used in India, chiefly
of jute.

GUNNY-BAGS. The sacks used on the India station for holding rice,
biscuit, &c.; often as sand-bags in fortification.

GUN-PENDULUM. _See_ BALLISTIC PENDULUM.

GUN-PORTS. _See_ PORTS.

GUNPOWDER. The well-known explosive composition which, for its
regularity of effect and convenience in manufacture and use, is still
preferred for general purposes to all the new and more violent but more
capricious agents. In England it is composed of 75 parts saltpetre to 10
sulphur and 15 charcoal; these proportions are varied slightly in
different countries. The ingredients are mixed together with great
mechanical nicety, and the compound is then pressed and granulated. On
the application of fire it is converted into gas with va