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<hw>Gun"stome`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A cannon ball; -- so called because originally made of stone.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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<h1>Gunter rig</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"ter rig`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.</def>

<h1>Gunter's chain</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"ter's chain`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Surveying)</fld> <def>The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. See <er>Chain</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 4, and <er>Gunter's scale</er>.</def>

<h1>Gunter's line</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"ter's line`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also <altname>line of lines</altname>, and <altname>line of numbers</altname>.</def>

<h1>Gunter's quadrant</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"ter's quad`rant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See <er>Gunter's scale</er>.</def>

<h1>Gunter's scale</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"ter's scale`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund <i>Gunter</i> (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also <cref>Gunter's chain</cref>, and <cref>Gunter's quadrant</cref>.</def>

<note>&hand; Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in surveying and navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of dividers alone.</note>

<h1>Gunwale</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gun"wale</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Gun</ets> + <ets>wale</ets>. So named because the upper guns were pointed from it.]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>gunnel</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Gurge</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gurge</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>gurges</ets>.]</ety> <def>A whirlpool.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge Boils out from under ground. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gurge</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gurge</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[See Gorge.]</ety> <def>To swallow up.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Gurgeons</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gur"geons</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <def>See <er>Grudgeons</er>.</def>

<h1>Gurgle</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gur"gle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gurgled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>;<tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gurgling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. It. <ets>gorgogliare</ets> to gargle, bubble up, fr. L. <ets>gurgulio</ets> gullet. Cf. <er>Gargle</er>, <er>Gorge</er>.]</ety> <def>To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.</def>

<blockquote>Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gurgle</h1> <Xpage=659>

<hw>Gur"gle</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise. "Tinkling gurgles."</def>