S vs Blunderbuss - What's the difference?
s | blunderbuss |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range.
* 1817 , Merriweather Lewis & William Clark, Travels to the Source of the Missouri River, and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean , Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown (1817),
* 1942 , Carl G. Erich, "
* 2007 , Norm Flayderman, Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms , Gun Digest Books (2007), ISBN 9781440226519,
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun blunderbuss is
an old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc at short range.s
Translingual
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Symbol
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(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}blunderbuss
English
Noun
(es)page 354:
- We fired the blunderbuss several times by way of salute, and soon after landed at the bank near the village of the Mahahas, or Shoe Indians, and were received by a crowd of people, who came to welcome our return.
Flintlock Blunderbuss", Popular Science , June 1942:
- One of the most picturesque of the old flintlock guns is the blunderbuss , which was often carried by coach guards for protection against highwaymen.
page 764:
- The blunderbuss never gained great favor in the American colonies or early United States.