punt gun

English

Etymology

Named after punt (“shallow boat”) on which the shotgun was typically fixed.

Noun

punt gun (plural punt guns)

(chiefly historical) A very large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations and private sport.

Translations

large shotgun

Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: venepyssy, ruuhipyssy
French: canardière (fr) f
German: Entenkanone f
Italian: smeriglio (it) f
Manx: punt-ghunn m
Russian: у́точница f (útočnica)
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: escopeta de barco f
Swedish: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: утя́тниця f (utjátnycja), гуся́тниця (uk) f (husjátnycja)

Further reading

punt gun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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