blunderbussedadj.
Armed with a blunderbuss.
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pistoled1634
blunderbussed1851
revolvered1858
pistol-toting1903
pistol-packing1927
1851 H. D. Wolff Pictures Spanish Life (1853) 30 The blunder~bussed guard.
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adj.1851- to put words into a person's mouth
- to put years on a person
- to put yorkshire on one
- to put your heads together
- to put, drive, reduce, etc to the last shifts
- to put, etc, under the spear
- to put, lay, lay down or set a thing at stake or at the stake
- to put, lay, lay down or set at stake or at the stake
- to put, or speak with, one's tongue in one's cheek
- to put, set an edge upon
- to put, set an esteem, a high, low esteem upon
- to put, set esteem, a high, low esteem upon
- to put, set etc store upon
- to put, set great store upon
- to put, set one's shoulder to
- to put, set or lay by
- to put, set store upon
- to put, set upon the full stretch
- to put, set upon the stretch
- to put, set, place, etc on the rack
- to put, set, strain, stretch on the tenterhooks
- to put, set, stretch, etc on tenter(s
- to put, set, stretch, etc on the tenter(s
- to puzzle one's brain
- to puzzle one's brains