Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A popgun made of elder-wood by extracting the pith.
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Examples
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QUOTATION: That s a perilous shot out of an elder-gun.
Quotations 1919
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Thats a perilous shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and a private displeasure can do against a monarch.
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That's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather.
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That’s a perilous shot out of an elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can do against a monarch! you may as well go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock’s feather.
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