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elder-gun en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A popgun made of a hollowed shoot of elder, i.e. a harmless weapon.
   • … that's a perillous shot out of an Elder Gunne, that a poore and a priuate displeasure can doe against a Monarch. c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (First Folio, 1623)
   • … tis a great displeasure That an elder gun, can do against a cannon, c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (Quarto 1, 1600)

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