| 单词 | water gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater gun water gun n. †(a) a gun in which the projectile is ejected by water pressure (obsolete); (b) a gun, esp. a toy gun, designed to shoot a jet of water; cf. water pistol n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > gun using water as propellant water gun1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. v. 89 There are wayes to discharge a bullet..without any powder at all, as is done by water and windegunnes. View more context for this quotation 1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XV. 207 The noble Viscount..had never seen any gun discharged, [b]ut a pop or water-gun, yet he was now..promoted to the command of a battalion! 1846 Methodist Q. Rev. July 445 They then took a water gun, constructed of the barrel of an old musket, and through the chinks between the logs sent a jet of the boiling water into the faces and eyes of the assailants. 1992 Esquire July 18/2 I like to drench my friends in the dorm with a huge army water gun. 2013 New Yorker 25 Nov. 93/1 Inside, a Super Soaker water gun lay on a bed of iridescent tinsel. < as lemmas |
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