Blunderbuss is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLUNDERBUSS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an old-fashioned gun
• a short large-bored gun firing balls or slugs.
• an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision
• A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
• A stupid, blundering fellow.
• a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a muzzle-loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading

Words related to BLUNDERBUSS

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Words that contain BLUNDERBUSS

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How to use BLUNDERBUSS in a sentence

• The captain, highly incensed, instantly descended the companion-way to the cabin, and shortly after appeared with a blunderbuss, which he proceeded to prime.
• Education is an arm, for knowledge is power, and the ignorant man is but an infant, and to give him knowledge is like putting a loaded blunderbuss into the hands of a child.
• I stretched myself on the grass, drew out my cigar-case, and asked the man with the blunderbuss if he had a tinder-box on him.
• The landlord laid the blunderbuss across his knees, and stared into the yard.
• The blunderbuss had burst to shivers right down to the very breech.
• He is now much excited against the birds because they will not leave his figs alone, and someone has just lent him a blunderbuss wherewith to slay them.
• In this situation he was fired upon with a blunderbuss loaded heavily with ball and grape shot.
• It was in the corner of the yard that I found him, a blunderbuss in his hands and a mastiff held upon a leash by his son.
• A passionate man should be regarded with the same caution as a loaded blunderbuss, which may unexpectedly go off and do us an injury.
• We possessed every known engine, from the harpoon thrown by the hand to the barbed arrows of the blunderbuss, and the explosive balls of the duck-gun.
• We also told them our opinion of their conduct, and said, that if they did not leave the place, we would scatter the contents of a blunderbuss among them.
• I handed the blunderbuss to the miller, who seemed somewhat surprised to see me empty-handed, and more so, probably, to see me alive still.
• Gladstone in coalition with the blunderbuss soon put an end to the pleasing delusion.
• A variation from them was the hand-cannon or blunderbuss, with a bell-muzzle, which threw rough slugs or nails.
• The explorers fired their blunderbuss several times by way of salute, and the Indian chiefs expressed their satisfaction at the safe return of the white men.
• They swept it, probably, in the effective old-fashioned way by shooting a blank charge of powder from a blunderbuss straight up the opening.
• I instituted experiments by throwing light lines with bows and arrows, by rockets, and by a shortened blunderbuss with ball and line.
• A crazy, rusty blunderbuss hung over the fireplace.

Similar words containing BLUNDERBUS without suffix s

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