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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 722 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GUNNER, or MASTER GUNNER

GUNNER, or
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MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)
MASTER GUNNER , in the

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NAVY

navy, the

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WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant officer who has

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charge of the

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ORDNANCE (a syncopated form of " ordinance " or " ordonnance," so spelt in this sense since the 17th century)

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AMMUNITION

ammunition, and of the training of the men at

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GUN

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DRILL

drill . His functions in this respect are of less relative importance than they were in former times, when specially trained

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CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

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SEAMEN, LAWS RELATING TO

seamen gunners had not been formed .

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