What is "peashooters"

Usage examples of "peashooters".

See, the ball bearings used by the peashooters and the dummy rounds from the Halmans was all reusable.

The peashooters didn't draw nearly the steam now that they used to, and I was pretty proud of that, since it was my doing.

Anyway, the baron, he was tickled red over it cause now we could fire all four peashooters at once and still power the boat.

Both starboard peashooters were firing without letup, throwing six hundred rounds a minute into an almost solid mass of Mongol troops.

The men on the port peashooters, who had been dying of frustration up to this point, got ready to get their inning in.

I could hear the shouting and fighting around me, the peashooters and the swivel guns firing, but I couldn’t seem to get untangled.

After that they'd use their ramps, and these peashooters wouldn't hold them.

The earl fumbled on the shelves, moving pens and pipes and peashooters, little gargoyles and dead leaves.

The peashooters we have on this thing wouldn't hurt those ships, and they'd blow us away before we could get a shot off anyway.