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Definition of Pea shooter
1. Noun. A straight narrow tube through which pellets (as dried peas) can be blown at a target.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea Shooter
Literary usage of Pea shooter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"(1) A tube ; a pea-shooter. (2) A trump at cards. North. (3) The same as Trunk-hose,
qv (4) A place for keeping fish in. ..."
2. Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest: Being an Attempt to Illustrate by John Ayrton Paris (1842)
"The Pea-shooter. — A figure that dances on a. fountain.— The Flying Witch.
— Elasticity. — Springs. — The game of '' Ricochet," or Duck and Drake. ..."
3. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"The Pea-shooter is a metal tube, through which a pea is propelled by a puff of
the breath—or rather that is a description of the toy known as a pea-shooter. ..."
4. Nature's teachings: human invention anticipated by nature by John George Wood (1877)
"At college I have seen a night attack upon an undergraduate's rooms successfully
repelled by a pea-shooter made for the nonce of a glass tube, ..."
5. In the Child's World: Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary by Emilie Poulsson (1893)
"A little boy was holding them tightly, and said they were fine peas for his
pea-shooter. And immediately he put one in and shot it out. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... but in our day a elever engineer has asked himself, If a pea ean travel by
the mere pressure of the breath along ite pea-shooter, why should we not turn ..."
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