gun pit

noun

An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.

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Meanings

noungun pit (plural gun pits)

plural gun pits · alternative gunpit

  1. An excavation used to position guns so that they are protected from enemy fire.

    On one of the preliminary evenings the new Colonel, with his habitual bad luck, sent forward from C Camp an officer […] to patrol the land over which our assault was intended, with a special eye to the enemy's concern with some ancient gunpits there.

    1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 152
  2. The compartment for a gunner and gun in a fighter aircraft.

Origin

From gun + pit.

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APA

gun pit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gun%20pit

MLA

“gun pit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gun%20pit. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gun pit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gun%20pit.

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