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An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or otherwise, so named because they were originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephants and other big game. They used black powder cartridges at first but later used smokeless powder.
Elephant Gun is an EP by Beirut, released in 2007. The title track was originally released on Lon Gisland.
An Elephant gun is a large calibre gun for hunting elephants and other large game.
It can also refer to :
- Elephant Gun (film), the US title of the 1958 British film "Nor the Moon by Night"
- Elephant Gun (EP), a 2007 extended-play record by US indie band Beirut
- The Lahti L-39 Finnish anti-tank rifle, nicknamed Norsupyssy (“elephant gun”)
Usage examples of "elephant gun".
He unslung the powder bag and dropped it at his feet, and then he laid the elephant gun across it and holding his empty hands before him advanced slowly into the cave.
Standing in the bow with a double-barrelled elephant gun under his arm and a clay pipe sticking out of his red face, was Flynn O'Flynn.
His skin was dark also, baked like a crust of new bread, only the scar on his cheek was porcelain white where the elephant gun had burst so many years before.
The body of the old elephant hunter had lain beside the skeleton of his horse, with his long four-to-the-pound elephant gun at his side.
With me right beside her and the elephant gun close under her chin, after a couple tries she found her voice.
One was an elephant gun with strips of rimpi, or green hide, lashed round the stock and locks, such as used to be owned by the Dutchmen -- a 'roer' they call it.