speargun

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Etymology

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From spear +‎ gun.

Noun

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speargun (plural spearguns)

  1. A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
    • 2007 July 29, Brendan I. Koerner, “A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.

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