potgun

English

Etymology

From pot +‎ gun.

Noun

potgun (plural potguns)

  1. (obsolete) A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
      twelve pot-guns of brass
  2. (obsolete) A pop gun.
    • c. 1730, Jonathan Swift, To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels writ against him:
      When first in Print, you see him dread
      Each Pot-gun level'd at his Head

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