gunneress

Definitions

A female gunner.

nonstandard, rare

Examples

“Away, then, away ! The seized cannon are yoked with seized cart-horses : brown-locked Demoiselle Theroigne, with pike and helmet, sits there as gunneress, "with haughty eye and serene fair countenance;" comparable, some think⟳, to the Maid of Orleans.”

“... France, the patroness of officers, the inimitable model⟳ of the pupils of Saint-Cyr, and the romantic Druidess, the inspired woman-soldier of the national guard, the patriot gunneress of the Republicans, ...”

“At Jemappes there were at least two other Amazons, Catherine Pochelat and Duliere, both artillery women. At Lille, a widow, Mary Guillot, was gunneress; and when she came to Paris the Jacobin Club invited her to sit⟳ on the President's right hand.”

“Most strikingly, too, Bellmer's 1937 sculpture, Mitrailleuse en état de grâce (Machine-Gunneress), replaces phallic weapon associations by a voluptuous construct of buttock-head, breasts, and petal-like claws (reproduced in Rubin, Dada 151).”

“It was a huge house and several other refugees were also camping with Dr. Umberto, most of them, like⟳ me, victims of genitourinary calamities. The retired Israeli machine gunneress with the prolapsed uterus, for example: she dropped her intestines in the toilet one morning.”

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