Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes or repairs firearms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A maker of small-arms; one whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person
skilled in therepair and servicing offirearms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes or repairs guns
Etymologies
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Examples
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Knowing what a gunsmith is and does (my father was one) I can say with some confedence.
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Knowing what a gunsmith is and does (my father was one) I can say with some confedence.
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I understand where a gunsmith is coming from and how fustrating it mimght be to hear such things but I must admit that I have been known to ask such things and say such statements.
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Now I have moved to an area where the only gunsmith is a Remington licensed smith whom I would barely classify as a gunsmith.
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Now I have moved to an area where the only gunsmith is a Remington licensed smith whom I would barely classify as a gunsmith.
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I understand where a gunsmith is coming from and how fustrating it mimght be to hear such things but I must admit that I have been known to ask such things and say such statements.
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My gunsmith, is a Jewel, was a Tool-Dye man for many years then decided to fiddle with guns.
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I ve been aroud guns my entire life,. and a few things that trickled down from the old gunsmith is that there is always exceptions to every rule.
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Gary Schlomer, educational supervisor of the Colorado School of Trades (one of the few places you can go to learn to be a gunsmith) says, A gunsmith is just a mechanic.
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This brings up another point, to wit: The gunsmith is not the 'secret' to accuracy as much as it may pain me to point this out.
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