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Definition of Blunderbusses
1. blunderbuss [n] - See also: blunderbuss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blunderbusses
Literary usage of Blunderbusses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"with blunderbusses. When they were about half a mile op, and some eighty yards
apart, the signal was given, and M. le Pique missed. ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... pierced for fourteen guns, having one eighteen-pounder and twelve blunderbusses
on board; a schooner pierced for twelve ; a French privateer of four, ..."
3. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"blunderbusses USED BY THE NEBELS. It was from these guns that they fired the
deadly " pot-legs. ... blunderbusses ..."
4. M'Fingal: A Modern Epic Poem by John Trumbull (1856)
"... With rusty gun,f and leathern doublet; Turn'd all stone-walls and groves and
bushes, To batteries arm'd with blunderbusses; And with deep wounds, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"She has no blunderbusses, Sir, as you truly, but, I regret to add, ... Nature makes
man; man makes blunderbusses; ergo, nature makes blunderbusses. ..."
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