English
Etymology
Named after punt (“shallow boat”) on which the shotgun was typically fixed.
Noun
punt gun (plural punt guns)
- (chiefly historical) A very large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations and private sport.
Translations
large shotgun
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: venepyssy, ruuhipyssy
- French: canardière (fr) f
- German: Entenkanone f
- Italian: smeriglio (it) f
- Manx: punt-ghunn m
- Russian: у́точница f (útočnica)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: escopeta de barco f
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- Ukrainian: утя́тниця f (utjátnycja), гуся́тниця (uk) f (husjátnycja)
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