† calabassn.
Obsolete.
A small kind of gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > small or short pieces
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quarter cannon?a1549
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1578 W. Bourne Inuentions 87 Certaine smal Ordinance..as Markets..and some Calabasses that doo shoote small stones.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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