speargun
See also: spear gun
English
Etymology
spear + gun
Noun
speargun (plural spearguns)
- A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
- 2007 July 29, Brendan I. Koerner, “A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry”, in New York Times:
- The five Euro Series spearguns, whose stocks range in length from 102 to 145 centimeters (about 40 to 57 inches), went on sale in January 2006, priced from $380 to $474.
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Translations
a gun that fires a spear (normally used underwater)
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