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Harpoon vs Speargun - What's the difference?

harpoon | speargun |

As nouns the difference between harpoon and speargun

is that harpoon is a spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish while speargun is a tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.

As a verb harpoon

is to hunt something with a harpoon.

harpoon

English

(wikipedia harpoon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
  • (slang) A harmonica.

    • Derived terms

    * harpoon fork

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hunt something with a harpoon.

    • Derived terms

    * harpooner

    See also

    * spear English transitive verbs

    speargun

    English

    (wikipedia speargun)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 29, author=Brendan I. Koerner, title=A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The five Euro Series spearguns , whose stocks range in length from 102 to 145 centimeters (about 40 to 57 inches), went on sale in January 2006, priced from $380 to $474. }}