elder-gun

plural elder-guns · alternative elderne gun · alternative eller-gun

1. A popgun made of a hollowed shoot of elder, i.e. a harmless weapon.

   … tis a great displeasure That an elder gun, can do against a cannon,

   c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (Quarto 1, 1600)

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   … that's a perillous shot out of an Elder Gunne, that a poore and a priuate displeasure can doe against a Monarch.

   c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (First Folio, 1623)