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Definition of Potguns
1. potgun [n] - See also: potgun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potguns
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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