BLUNDERBUSS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("blunderbuss" is a kind of...):

musket (a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen)

Meronyms (parts of "blunderbuss"):

bell (the flared opening of a tubular device)

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