"gunnery" meaning in English

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        "The design and manufacture of guns, particularly those of a large caliber."
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          "ref": "1973, Jaroslav Hašek, chapter 5, in Cecil Parrott, transl., The Good Soldier Švejk, London: William Heinemann, page 438",
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          "text": "Basically, the problem was actually the British had too many ships! The Grand Fleet wasn't half bad with its gunnery, but there was so many battleships throwing fire at the battlecruisers and battleships of the High Seas Fleet that it was actually very difficult to tell \"Is that splash from us? Is that splash from that ship? Is that splash from a ship in another division? We don't know!\", so a lot of incorrect estimates and measures were taken, which lead to an awful lot of waterspouts going up, but not anywhere near the number of hits that you would otherwise expect[…]",
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        "The firing of guns."
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        "(uncountable) The firing of guns."
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