The number and size of guns on a ship; the collective firepower of guns on a vessel.
From 'gun' (Middle Dutch 'gonne') + '-age' (from Old French '-age', meaning collective nouns or aggregates). Developed as a naval term to describe a ship's weaponry.
A ship's 'gunnage' was its main measurement of power—when nations compared navies, they counted guns more than anything else. A '74-gun ship' was the standard battleship of the Napoleonic Wars.
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