potgun

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noun

A pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

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Meanings

nounpotgun (plural potguns)

plural potguns

  1. obsoleteA pot-shaped cannon; a mortar.

    twelve pot-guns of brass

    1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC
  2. obsoleteA pop gun.

    When first in Print, you see him dread Each Pot-gun level'd at his Head

    c. 1730, Jonathan Swift, To Doctor D-l-y on the Libels writ against him

Origin

From pot + gun.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

potgun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/potgun

MLA

“potgun.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/potgun. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “potgun,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/potgun.

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