studgun

English

Etymology

stud +‎ gun

Noun

studgun (plural studguns)

1. Any gun which shoots studs ("a small object that protrudes from something").
   • 1966 11, M. J. Pedersen, “Better Mousetraps”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 126, number 3, →ISSN, page 73:

     Eight shots per loading may be fired from this studgun with a one-eighth turn of the cylinder after each firing.

   • 1991, Textual Dynamics of the Professions, University of Wisconsin Press, page 262:

     This combined studgun effectiveness and danger is nowhere more dramatically illustrated than in the two accidents that formed the subject of this analysis.

Anagrams

• tudungs