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Definition of Peashooter
1. Noun. A toy gun, consisting of a tube through which peas or small objects are blown. ¹
2. Noun. Any small or ineffective gun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peashooter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peashooter
Literary usage of Peashooter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1851)
"Now, if without moving his head or the far extremity of the peashooter, lie will
lower the end through which he had looked from his right eye to his mouth, ..."
2. Choice Literature ... for Primary Grades by Sherman Williams (1898)
"A little boy was clutching them, and said they were fine peas for his peashooter,
and he put one in and shot it out. " Now I'm flying out into the wide ..."
3. Choice Literature: Book One : for Primary Grades by Sherman Williams (1898)
"A little boy was clutching them, and said they were fine peas for his peashooter,
and he put one in and shot it out. " Now I'm flying out into the wide ..."
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