gun barrel

English

Noun

gun barrel (plural gun barrels)

1. Alternative form of gunbarrel
   • 1907, William Wellington Greener, The Gun and Its Development, page 242:

     The gun barrel, whether forged, rolled, or drawn, is known technically as a tube.

   • 1990, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Review of the Department of the Navy's Investigation Into the Gun Turret Explosion Aboard the U.S.S. "Iowa", page 79:

     The current condemnation criteria for cracking in gun barrels is stated in the applicable technical manual regarding serviceability of Naval gun barrels as being the existence of any crack equal or greater than 3 inches for monobloc barrels.

   • 2013, Terry Gander, The Bofors Gun, page 114:

     As a result MAVAG machine tools normally engaged in manufacturing 40mm gun barrels were employed to bore out and rifle 40mm 51-calibre anti-tank gun barrels to be mounted on copies of the German carriage.