elephant gun


noun
  1. a gun of very large caliber, as .410 or greater, used in killing elephants or other big game.

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How to use elephant gun in a sentence

  • One poor fellow had his thigh smashed by a ball from an elephant gun, from which he afterwards died.

    The Matabele Campaign | R. S. S. Baden-Powell
  • I never woke up the whole camp by letting go an elephant gun at a jackal.

    The Rogue Elephant | Elliott Whitney
  • They told of finding the camp abandoned by Mowbray, and the General showed the fragments of the broken elephant-gun.

    The Rogue Elephant | Elliott Whitney
  • A moment later she tore free, but Jack's elephant-gun crashed out and she lay still.

    The Rogue Elephant | Elliott Whitney
  • The elephant gun figured in still another tale, this time of a vicious rhinoceros.

    The Hunters | William Morrison

British Dictionary definitions for elephant gun

elephant gun

noun
  1. a gun used in the hunting of elephants

  2. Australian slang a surfboard for riding large waves

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