Other forms: guns
A gun is a weapon that fires bullets from a tube. Load the gun, a gun licence, point a gun.
Rifling — spiral grooves cut inside the barrel — spins the bullet so it flies straight, and that single idea transformed accuracy. Gun laws vary more between countries than almost any other kind of law. The word may come from a woman's name given to a medieval siege engine.
1noungunA weapon that fires bullets from a tube.
“The robber pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded money.”
gun is a weapon.
Middle English gunne, possibly from Gunnhild, a woman's name once given to engines of war.
Middle English
gunne
English, today
gun
From Middle English gunne. From Middle English gunne,gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA