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blunderbuss
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large caliber barrel , which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore, and used with shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity and/or caliber. The blunderbuss could ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Dutch donderbus , from donder "thunder" (Middle Dutch doner , donder , from Proto-Germanic *thunaraz ; see thunder (n.)) + bus "gun" (originally "box, tube"); altered by resemblance to blunder .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And that means fiddly switches scattered haphazardly across the dash and centre console like bits of shot fired from a blunderbuss . ▪ As the coach thundered into Glasgow, the post-horn would be sounded and a blunderbuss fired ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range.
Usage examples of blunderbuss.
The charge of the blunderbuss had hit the scabbie just below the belt buckle.
She was a woman of squat, startling ugliness, her hair bound with a muslin scarf, and, more to the immediate point, armed with a vast, brass-barrelled blunderbuss that covered the three officers.
Lieutenant Fytch had ordered the toll-keeper and his wife out of their house and the woman, who had earlier threatened Sharpe with her blunderbuss, was now weeping for the loss of her home.
He imagined a heliotype: Susullil by Judah by Elsie by Pomeroy with his blunderbuss, and he Cutter at the end beside the golem, all of them with the set-faced pride of the hunter.
Meanwhile Will hurled an otherwise useless blunderbuss at the nose of his opponent, which made it easy to disable him too when they closed.
The groom on the box was still clasping the blunderbuss, and staring fascinated at the tumbled figure in the road.
There was a sudden surge toward the porch, but Judd stepped forward, snatching one of the pistols from his belt and driving them rapidly back as he swung the wide bore of the blunderbuss to face them.
The black chuckled and, descending a step, raised the pistol and blunderbuss into the air.
His blunderbuss was underneath the borrowed overalls, and he had no time to fumble for it before his opponent had pounced on him and caught his throat in a deadly grip.
When he came out, he had a pair of loaded horse-pistols in his great-coat pocket, a brass-barreled blunderbuss under his arm, and the sharp knife which Dr.
It was then that Doctor Syn noticed the brass bell of a blunderbuss wobbling at him through a fissure in the wall.
Mipps would pull a blunderbuss at a man as soon as I would at a rabbit.
Whereupon the coachman stood up, put the whip in its socket, opened the locker beneath the box seat, and produced two horse-pistols and a blunderbuss, which he lay on the roof of the vehicle.
The armed coachman, assailed from back and front, fired his blunderbuss into the air, and then gave in for very fear.
For himself he kept a sort of oversized blunderbuss with a harness instead of a gun butt.