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gunroom

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gun·room  (gnrm, -rm)
n.
The quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship.


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Brooke's invitation that the Prime Minister should meet the midshipmen in the gunroom was warmly accepted.
The tours will cover areas usually closed to the public, including the stables, the gunroom, the old slaughterhouse, haylofts and attics.
4 That such an implement normally has innocuous uses can affect a defendant's fate as well; Yawffles may be able to get off on manslaughter on the ground that the candlestick just happened to be in his hand when he was provoked to an (unpremeditated and unaccustomed) fit of rage, whereas he would surely be tried for first-degree murder had he shot his employer in cold blood after having expressly procured from the gunroom his Lordship's cherished octagon-barreled, percussion-cap fowling-piece.
 
 
 
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