Definition of Gas gun

1. Noun. A gun that fires gas shells.

Generic synonyms: Gun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gas Gun

gas engine
gas fire
gas fires
gas fitter
gas fitting
gas fixture
gas furnace
gas gage
gas gangrene
gas gangrene antitoxin
gas gauge
gas gauges
gas generator
gas giant
gas giants
gas gun (current term)
gas guzzler
gas guzzlers
gas heat
gas heater
gas helmet
gas holder
gas hydrate
gas hydrates
gas jar
gas jars
gas jet
gas lamp
gas line
gas main

Literary usage of Gas gun

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

1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"This is how gunpowder and gun- cotton really do the work of a steam gun, a carbonic-acid-gas gun, or any other kind of gas gun. ..."

2. Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Congressional Hearing edited by Christopher H. Smith (1999)
"The Model 203-A gas gun is a lightweight, durable 37/38mm launcher designed to fire Federal Laboratories complete line of projectiles. ..."

3. Human Rights in Northern Ireland: Congressional Hearing edited by Christopher H. Smith (1999)
"The Model 203-A gas gun is a lightweight, durable 37/38mm launcher designed to fire Federal Laboratories complete line of projectiles. ..."

4. The Nautical Magazine (1832)
"While upon the subject of guns, I must not omit to refer to the very ingenious invention of the gas gun by Mr. 3. B. Wigham, of Dublin, the advantages ..."

5. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International Conference by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"Hugoniot Equation of State Flat-plate impact experiments by the use of a standard 102- mm-diameter bore, single stage gas gun were made on 100- 200 Ottawa ..."

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