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potgun

potgun noun: a pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

Noun

potgun (plural potguns)

  1. (obsolete) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
    • twelve pot-guns of brass1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) A pop gun.
    • When first in Print, you see him dread
      Each Pot-gun level'd at his Headc. 1730, Jonathan Swift, To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels writ against him

Forms of potgun

pluralpotguns

Origin of potgun

From pot + gun.

Questions about potgun

What does potgun mean?
Potgun means a pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
What part of speech is potgun?
Potgun is a noun.
What is the plural of potgun?
The plural of potgun is potguns.

Words near potgun in the dictionary

  1. potexviruses
  2. potful
  3. potfuls
  4. potgirl
  5. potgirls
  6. potgun
  7. potguns
  8. Poth
  9. pothanger
  10. pothangers
  11. pothead

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