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spring guns

spring guns is the plural of spring gun.

Meaning of spring gun

Noun

spring gun (plural spring guns)

  1. A gun rigged to fire when a tripwire is crossed.
    • A prevalent custom is the "pomali," exactly equivalent to the "taboo" of the Pacific islanders, and equally respected. It is used on the commonest occasions, and a few palm leaves stuck outside a garden as a sign of the "pomali" will preserve its produce from thieves as effectually as the...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 306

Questions about spring guns

What is spring guns the plural of?
Spring guns is the plural of spring gun.

Words near spring guns in the dictionary

  1. spring greens
  2. Spring Grove
  3. spring growth
  4. Spring Gully
  5. spring gun
  6. spring guns
  7. spring hammer
  8. spring hammers
  9. spring has sprung
  10. spring heel
  11. spring heels

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