Blunderbuss

['blʌndəbʌs] or ['blʌndɚbʌs]

(noun.) a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle.

Checked by Danny--From WordNet

(n.) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

(n.) A stupid, blundering fellow.

Edited by Amber

n. [1]. Short gun (with a large bore).[2]. Blunderer, blunderhead, stupid fellow.

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n. a short hand-gun with a wide bore.

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With this hurried adjuration, he cocked his blunderbuss, and stood on the offensive. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Among ancient fire-arms the principal ones were the arquebus, also bombardelle, and the blunderbuss. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
But Conkey was quick, too; for he fired a blunderbuss arter him, and roused the neighbourhood. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Oh, dear, what a blunderbuss I am! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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