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potguns

potguns is the plural of potgun.

Meaning of potgun

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

Questions about potguns

What is potguns the plural of?
Potguns is the plural of potgun.

Words near potguns in the dictionary

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

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