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GUNNER, or MASTER GUNNER
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GUNNER, or MASTER GUNNER, in the navy, the warrant officer who has charge of the ordnance and ammunition, and of the training of the men at gun drill. His functions in this respect are of less relative importance than they were in former times, when specially trained corps of seamen gunners had not been formed.