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eller-gun

eller-gun is the alternative form of elder-gun.

Meaning of elder-gun

Noun

elder-gun (plural elder-guns)

  1. A popgun made of a hollowed shoot of elder, i.e. a harmless weapon.
    • … tis a great displeasure
      That an elder gun, can do against a cannon,c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (Quarto 1, 1600)

Questions about eller-gun

What is eller-gun the alternative form of?
Eller-gun is the alternative form of elder-gun.

Words near eller-gun in the dictionary

  1. Ellensohn
  2. Ellenwood
  3. Ellenwoods
  4. Ellenyard
  5. eller
  6. eller-gun
  7. Ellerbe
  8. Ellerbee
  9. Ellerbees
  10. Ellerbes
  11. Ellerbrock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eller-gun (page history and authors); elder-gun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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