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Definition of Quaker gun
1. Noun. A dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood.
Definition of Quaker gun
1. Noun. (chiefly US idiomatic military weaponry) A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of Quaker gun) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaker Gun
Literary usage of Quaker gun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake (1887)
"quaker gun AT STAGE STATION. We have also witnessed the occupation of the Pacific
coast, the rise of two great States there whose people were already ..."
2. The Making of the Great West by Samuel Adams Drake (2001)
"quaker gun AT STAGE STATION. We have also witnessed the occupation of the Pacific
coast, the rise of two great States there whose people were already ..."
3. The Making of the Great West; 1512-1883 by Samuel Adams Drake (1887)
"quaker gun AT STAGE STATION. Its We have also witnessed the occupation of the
Pacific coast, the rise of two great States there whose people . were already ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"quaker gun, a log of wood mounted on wheels or some other arrangement, ...
These were the quaker gun* afterwards noticed in Northern papers. ..."
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