From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishblunderbussblun‧der‧buss /ˈblʌndəbʌs $ -ər-/ noun [countable] PMWa type of gun used in the past
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blunderbuss• As the coach thundered into Glasgow, the post-horn would be sounded and a blunderbuss fired into the air.• And that means fiddly switches scattered haphazardly across the dash and centre console like bits of shot fired from a blunderbuss.• Sir William Johnson told me that he killed at one shot with a blunderbuss, a hundred and twenty or thirty.• To fire the blunderbuss use the large teardrop-shaped flame template to represent the spread of shot from the gun's barrel.Origin blunderbuss (1600-1700) Early Dutch donderbus, from donder “thunder” + bus “gun”; influenced by blunder 