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Blunderbuss
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(a corruption of the Dutch Bonder, thunder, and the Dutch bus; cf. Ger. Biichse, a box or tube, hence a thunder-box or gun), an obsolete muzzle-loading firearm with a bell-shaped muzzle. Its calibre was large so that it could contain many balls or slugs, and it was intended to be fired at a short range, so that some of the charge was sure to take effect. The word is also used by analogy to describe a blundering and random person or talker.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Blunderbuss'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/blunderbuss.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Blunderbuss'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/blunderbuss.html. 1910.
