potgun

noun — 2 senses

potgun

noun

Etymology From pot + gun.

1

Obsolete A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

twelve pot-guns of brass1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

2

Obsolete A pop gun.

When first in Print, you see him dread Each Pot-gun level'd at his Headc. 1730, Jonathan Swift, To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels writ against him:

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