-
shotgun (also
known as a scattergun, peppergun, or
historically as a
fowling piece) is a long-barreled
firearm designed to
shoot a straight-walled cartridge...
- a
fowling-
piece and the
explosion of gun powder,
which they have
known so
often to be
fatal to
their race. Such is
their dread of a
fowling-
piece, that...
-
Captain Parker's
muskets to the
state of M****achusetts; one the
light fowling-
piece which he
carried at
Quebec and
Lexington and one that he captured. They...
-
small arms.
While the
sporting shotgun traces its
ancestry back to the
fowling piece,
which was a
refinement of the
smoothbore musket, the
combat shotgun...
- were
originally part of a
garniture that
included a
hunting rifle, a
fowling piece (a shotgun), and said pair of pistols. This set was
eventually split...
- converted.
While hunting wild duck, he was
dissatisfied with his
flintlock fowling-
piece due to its long lock time (the
delay between the time the
trigger is...
- pole.
Punts were
originally built as
cargo boats and as
platforms for
fowling and for fishing, such as angling;
whereas now
punting is
boating for pleasure...
-
sentenced to
death for
killing a man (she blew off his head with a
fowling piece), but the
sentence was
commuted to
transport to Sydney, New
South Wales...
-
Minister Gough Whitlam on 3
December 1973. John King’s
single barrel fowling piece, used at the
Eureka Stockade, is on
display at Ballarat’s
Eureka Centre...
- of M****. Press, 2010)
Fiction Winter 2011-12 2012
Heidy Steidlmayer Fowling Piece (Triquarterly Books, 2011)
Poetry Winter 2012-13 2013
Lysley Tenorio...
