mousetrap guns

A form of mousetrap gun — A device patented by James Alexander Williams in 1882, consisting of a frame with a handgun or revolver rigged to fire when triggered by an animal stepping on a treadle.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of mousetrap gun
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