English

gun pit

From gun + pit.

A compound of gun + pit

Middle English gunne

English gun

Latin puteus ‘trench, pit, well’

Proto-West Germanic *puti ‘well (water)’

Old English pytt ‘well, pool’

Middle English pit

English pit

Today it means

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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.