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blunderbuss
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blunderbuss \Blun"der*buss\, n. [Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. b["u]chse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket.]
A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
A stupid, blundering fellow.
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.
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.
WordNet
n. a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
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 be considered to be an early form of shotgun, which was often adapted to military and defensive use. It was effective at short ranges, but lacked accuracy for targets at long range. A blunderbuss in handgun form was called a dragon, and it is from this that the term dragoon evolved.
Blunderbuss is an EP by singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson. Released on October 22, 2004, between his debut album and Separate Ways, the EP is permanently out of stock and difficult to obtain. A variation of "Turning the Gun On Myself" appears on Thompson's 2008 album, A Piece of What You Need.
Blunderbuss is the debut album by Jack White, released on April 23, 2012 through White's own label Third Man Records in association with XL Recordings and Columbia Records. The album was released in MP3, compact disc, and vinyl editions. The album was almost entirely written, recorded, and produced by White in 2011. The first single from the album, " Love Interruption", was released on January 30, 2012 through White's website and Third Man Records website. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 138,000 copies. The album received Grammy Award nominations for Album of the Year and Best Rock Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards, while the single "Freedom at 21" was nominated for Best Rock Song. The single "I'm Shakin" was nominated for Best Rock Performance at 2014 Grammy Awards.
A blunderbuss is a type of muzzle-loading firearm.
Blunderbuss may also refer to:
- Blunderbuss (EP), an EP by Teddy Thompson
- Blunderbuss (album), an album by Jack White
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.