Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
murderer , 2. - noun plural Bits of old iron, nails, etc., with which a gun was loaded to sweep the decks of an enemy's ship. Also
murdering-shot .
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Examples
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"Aye, Captain, I sailed with Captain Myddleton as gunner and will lay you a gun with any man from a murdering-piece or minion to a great culverin."
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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He is not like a hasty creditor, who requires the debt, and gives no time for payment; he shoots off his warning-piece, that he may not shoot off his murdering-piece.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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