Meaning of gun pit | Babel Free

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.”

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