The aftermost part of a ship; the stern; the aftermost and highest deck often forming (esp. in a wooden ship) the roof of a cabin in the stern.

An imitation bullet of clay, wood, paper, etc., as used in a toy gun.

A hollow tube from which a dart or pellet is shot by blowing; a blow-gun, a pea-shooter.

a pop-gun made of a hollow shoot of elder.

A toy gun which shoots a pellet or cork by suddenly compressing the air behind it. Also: a pea-shooter. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative.

A pea-shooter. Obsolete. rare.

Originally Scottish. A tube through which air can be blown, esp. a simple form of bellows (obsolete). Now (English regional (northern)): spec. a…

Of inanimate things: see whistle, v. 3.

A toy weapon consisting of a small tube from which peas may be propelled by blowing. Also figurative: a crude or ineffectual weapon.

a pea-shooter.

That detonates. esp. That explodes by a blow, or is used in explosion by percussion, as detonating hammer, detonating powder.

= pea-shooter, n.

Scottish. A toy air gun made from a quill pen; a popgun. Hence to crack like a pen-gun: to be very talkative. Now rare.

A popgun made from a hollowed branch. Obsolete. rare.

A toy consisting of fulminating powder and fine gravel wrapped in thin paper, which explodes when thrown on a hard surface.

A toy gun in which the missile is discharged by the release of a spring.

a blowpipe for shooting pellets of putty (sense 3).

British and New Zealand slang. A slingshot. Obsolete.

Scottish, Irish English (northern) and English regional (northern). A blowpipe, a pea-shooter. Also: (U.S. regional (south-eastern)) a popgun. Cf…

‘a toy for shooting beans, shot, or other small missiles; a pea-shooter’ (Cent. Dict. 1889).

= putty blower n.

a toy pistol that shoots a jet of water; (occasionally more generally) any pistol capable of discharging water or other liquid.

a small hand-missile which emits a nauseating smell when broken, typically thrown by schoolboys; also transferred.

a toy pistol which fires caps (sense 14b).

= cap-pistol n.

(a) (now rare) = main sense above; (b) originally Science Fiction, a weapon incorporating a laser; a toy intended to resemble this; (c) any of…