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speargun

speargun noun: a tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.

Noun

speargun (plural spearguns)

  1. A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
    • The five Euro Series spearguns, whose stocks range in length from 102 to 145 centimeters (about 40 to 57 inches), went on sale in January 2006, priced from $380 to $474.2007 July 29, Brendan I. Koerner, “A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry”, in New York Times

Forms of speargun

pluralspearguns

Origin of speargun

From spear + gun.

Questions about speargun

What does speargun mean?
Speargun means a tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
What part of speech is speargun?
Speargun is a noun.
What is the plural of speargun?
The plural of speargun is spearguns.

Words near speargun in the dictionary

  1. spearfishery
  2. spearfishes
  3. spearfishing
  4. speargrass
  5. speargrasses
  6. speargun
  7. spearguns
  8. spearhead
  9. spearheaded
  10. spearheader
  11. spearheaders

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