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Definition of Potgun
1. n. A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
Definition of Potgun
1. Noun. (obsolete) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A pop gun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potgun
1. a mortar [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potgun
Literary usage of Potgun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"Popgun was formerly corrupted into potgun, which was the name of an ancient piece
of ordnance. Heine mentions a Dutchman " investigating the distinction ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"The kitchen collocavit the best hens to grease; Run, fet it, Dobinet, and come
at once withal, And bring with thee my potgun,1 hanging by the wall.2 I have ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"There was a kind of small cannon so called. " And yet will winke for to discharge
a potgun," Tell- Tale, Dulwich College MS. ..."
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