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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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
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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...
- 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...
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Cyllene 1899:
Dominie 1900:
Diamond Jubilee 1901:
William the
Third 1902:
Fowling-
Piece * 1903:
Flotsam 1904:
Henry the
First 1905:
Cicero 1906:
Lally 1907:...
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written for the
column by the
humorist Michael Green.
Always armed with a
fowling-
piece, he is the
perpetual foe of "Whigs, Jacobites, Papists,
Frenchmen and...