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Example sentences for: midship

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Son of a gun probably is not nautical, and “the midship gun” used in the explanation doesn't make sense.
When one of these women gave birth to a child without knowing which sailor had fathered it, the paternity was logged as “gun,” perhaps alluding to the midship gun, which was often located near the makeshift maternity room.