blunderbuss
noun/ˈblʌndəbʌs/
/ˈblʌndərbʌs/
- an old type of gun with a wide endWord Originmid 17th cent.: alteration (by association with blunder) of Dutch donderbus, literally ‘thunder gun’.
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