Shotgun
['ʃɒtgʌn] or ['ʃɑtɡʌn]
Definition
(noun.) firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges.
Inputed by Angela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
Checker: Wilmer
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a shotgun, foretells domestic troubles and worry with children and servants. To shoot both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun, foretells that you will meet such exasperating and unfeeling attention in your private and public life that suave manners giving way under the strain and your righteous wrath will be justifiable. See Pistol, Revolver, etc.
Edited by Abraham
Examples
- Don't touch me with your shotgun. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then we saw Don Faustino coming out again with Pablo behind him with the shotgun. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Never did he open his mouth from the moment he came out pushed by the shotgun of Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Then I saw Pablo unsling his shotgun and he reached over and tapped the priest on the shoulder with it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Pablo was sitting on the big table in front of the Mayor's chair with his shotgun slung over his back. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In choke-boring your shotgun, for example, the final reamer took off only 2/1000 of an inch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Whitmore double-barrel breech-loading shotgun was designed, and later developed into the Remington breech-loading shotgun. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Also I had only a shotgun with cartridges of large buckshot and the _guardia civil_ had Mausers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I saw Pablo say something to Cuatro Dedos and he moved over two tables and some benches and the guards stood behind them with their shotguns. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- During its early years this shop made anything in its line that could be sold in the neighborhood--rifles, shotguns, crowbars, pickaxes, farm tools. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checked by Desmond