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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device for mechanically shooting a spearlike missile under water, as in spearfishing.
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- noun fishing a form of mechanical
gun that fires aspear as aprojectile ; generally used under water whenspearfishing .
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from spear and gun
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