Definitionn. a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
Last update: July 18, 2015
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Even today blunderbuss is the pride possession of many royal families in India. [Please select]
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- Bolingbroke'scollected works, including his chief political writings already mentioned and his philosophical essays Concerning the Nature, Extent and Reality of Human Knowledge, On the Folly and Presumption of Philosophers, On the Rise and Progress of Monotheism, and On Authority in Matters of Religion, were first published in Mallet's faulty edition in 1754, - according to Johnson's wellknown denunciation, "the blunderbuss charged against religion and morality," - and subsequently in 1778, 1809 and 184r. [Please select]
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"It frightens me to have him come near me with his blunderbuss." [Please select]
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But Conkey was quick, too; for he fired a blunderbuss arter him, and roused the neighbourhood. [Please select]
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The blunderbuss fell to the roadway, with a clatter. [Please select]
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"Have a care of that blunderbuss; they're nasty things to burst."' [Please select]
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For the same reasons the blunderbuss proved to be more effectual than the rifle. [Please select]
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He was armed with his favourite blunderbuss, a pocket-compass, and a couple of ship-biscuits. [Please select]
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"So we will, and be jolly till the blunderbuss gets back." [Please select]
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To this I assented gladly; and Peterkin replied by laying down a huge bell-mouthed blunderbuss, and divesting himself of a pair of enormous horse-pistols, with which he had purposed to overawe the natives. [Please select]
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It is a tube, fine as a horsehair, slightly enlarged at the free extremity, like an old-fashioned blunderbuss, and expanding to form an egg-shaped capsule at the point of origin. [Please select]
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