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Meaning of gun pit | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.
  2. The compartment for a gunner and gun in a fighter aircraft.

Examples

“On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

gun powder gun range gun rights gun sanctuary gun shearer gun show

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