Definition of Potguns

1. Noun. (plural of potgun) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Potguns

1. potgun [n] - See also: potgun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potguns

potentiometrically
potentiometry
potentiostat
potentiostats
potentize
potentized
potentizes
potentizing
potently
potentness
potents
potes
potful
potfuls
potgun
potguns (current term)
pothead
potheads
pothecaries
pothecary
potheen
potheens
pother
potherb
potherbs
pothered
pothering
pothers
pothery
potholder

Literary usage of Potguns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"HALL, Married Clergy, 148, They are but as the potguns of boys. ... The ratling pit-pat noise Of the less poetic boys, When their potguns aim to hit With ..."

2. Early Voyages and Travels to Russia and Persia, by Anthony Jenkinson and by Edward Delmar Morgan, Charles Henry Coote (1886)
"They haue also a great many of morter pieces or potguns,2out of which pieces they shoote ... 2 potguns, a name for a short, wide cannon, shaped like a pot. ..."

3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert ed Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1875)
"Yes, and go make potguns. JAS. 'Tis late, and sleep would do you good, my lord. LOR. Sleep ! why, do you think I am mad, sir ? JAS. Not I, my lord. LOR. ..."

4. Nero & Other Plays by Henry Porter, John Day, Herbert Percy Horne, Nathan Field (1888)
"Poor bees ! potguns,1 illegitimate scum, And bastard flies, taking adulterate shape From reeking dunghills ! If that meddling ape, ..."

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