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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Whitworth gun

/wĭt'-wẽrthˌ gŭn/ · Whit·worth gun · IPA
01 A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.
  1. 1.
    A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England.(Gun.)