punt gun

English

Etymology

Named after punt (“shallow boat”) on which the shotgun was typically fixed.

Noun

punt gun (plural punt guns)

1. (chiefly historical) A very large shotgun used in the 19th and early 20th centuries for shooting large numbers of waterfowl for commercial harvesting operations and private sport.

Translations

large shotgun

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: venepyssy, ruuhipyssy
• French: canardière (fr) f
• German: Entenkanone f
• Italian: smeriglio (it) f
• Manx: punt-ghunn m
• Russian: у́точница f (útočnica)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: escopeta de barco f
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: утя́тниця f (utjátnycja), гуся́тниця (uk) f (husjátnycja)

Further reading

• punt gun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia