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† ˈwind-gun Obs.
[f. wind n.1 + gun n.]
A gun for shooting a missile by the force of compressed air: = air-gun.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xii. §6. 104 The experience of windgunnes assureth vs that ayre duly applyed is able to giue greater motion vnto heauy bodies then vnto light ones. 1728Pope Dunc. i. 181 As, forc'd from wind-guns, lead itself can fly. 1779Phil. Trans. LXIX. 399 That air compressed to one tenth in a wind gun possesses a power not much short of gunpowder. 1800Sporting Mag. XVI. 273 It will not be out of place here to add some remarks on wind-guns.
fig.1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. Prol., They [sc. critics] shoot, alas, with Wind-gunns, charg'd with Air. 1680Collect. Poems 190, I am one of those that have been shot at by Wind-Guns, which have prejudiced my Reputation. 1781Cowper Conversat. 274 His whisper'd theme, dilated and at large, Proves after all a wind-gun's airy charge. |