"gun-layer" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "gun-layer (plural gun-layers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1930, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Captain Scott, page 112",
          "text": "A ship carries comparatively small guns to repel attacks by torpedo craft. We carry eight twelve-pounders, three three-pounders for the purpose. Each of these guns has its appointed gun-layer who is supposed to shoot straight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Ian V. Hogg, Allied Artillery of World War Two, page 111",
          "text": "The breech is opened by hand and the auto-loader primed, after which the gun-layer aims and stamps on the firing pedal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 114",
          "text": "'Well, comrade Colonel, it's started now!\" said a gun-layer.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A soldier who is assigned to aim and fire a mounted machine gun such as that on the turret of a tank."
      ],
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          "machine gun",
          "machine gun"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "gun layer"
        },
        {
          "word": "gunlayer"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-layer"
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      "form": "gun-layers",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1930, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Captain Scott, page 112",
          "text": "A ship carries comparatively small guns to repel attacks by torpedo craft. We carry eight twelve-pounders, three three-pounders for the purpose. Each of these guns has its appointed gun-layer who is supposed to shoot straight.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Ian V. Hogg, Allied Artillery of World War Two, page 111",
          "text": "The breech is opened by hand and the auto-loader primed, after which the gun-layer aims and stamps on the firing pedal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 114",
          "text": "'Well, comrade Colonel, it's started now!\" said a gun-layer.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A soldier who is assigned to aim and fire a mounted machine gun such as that on the turret of a tank."
      ],
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          "machine gun",
          "machine gun"
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    {
      "word": "gun layer"
    },
    {
      "word": "gunlayer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gun-layer"
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