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Definition of Harpoon gun
1. Noun. A cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpoon Gun
Literary usage of Harpoon gun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"As the whale broke water and shot forth a column of vapor, the click of the camera
and the crash of the harpoon gun sounded almost at the same instant. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"The harpoon-gun is well calculated to facilitate the capture of ... The harpoon
gun was invented iu the year 1731, and used by some individuals with success ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Mounted in a swivel on the gun-bollard head, the harpoon gun from its elevated
position commands both bows as well as right ahead ; and with a charge of 11 ..."
4. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account of by Albert Hastings Markham, Sherard Osborn (1874)
"The fore gore is coiled down in a harpoon gun. small tub or kid, which is kept
in the bows ... The harpoon gun is fixed on a swivel in the bows of the boat, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"A variety of manoeuvres are practised with the boat when using the harpoon gun ;
at times lying at anchor as in deep whaling, at other * The ..."
6. American Natural History by John Davidson Godman (1836)
"This is the harpoon gun. It is well calculated to facilitate the capture of whales
... The harpoon-gun was invented in the year 1731, and used, it seems, ..."
7. Encyclopædia Americana; a Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"Harpoon-Gun. The harpoon-gun is well calculated to facilitate the capture of ...
In its present improved form, the harpoon-gun consists of a kind of swivel, ..."
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