peashooter
a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
Origin of peashooter
1- Also called beanshooter.
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How to use peashooter in a sentence
I'll shoot the critter, after you've tried that there pea-shooter on him!
The Watchers of the Trails | Charles G. D. RobertsThen there was the pea-shooter to fall back upon in case different arrangements had to be made.
The Song of Songs | Hermann SudermannKilled him instantly with a little mite of a pistol with about as much carry as a pea-shooter.
Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective | Ellis Parker ButlerMaster Bates whipped out a pea-shooter, and blew a pea on to the exposed lobe of the sleeper's ear.
Poison Island | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)The whole of a Pyramid, shot from a colossal catapult, would not have been the petty charge of a pea shooter to it.
The Johnstown Horror | James Herbert Walker
British Dictionary definitions for peashooter
/ (ˈpiːˌʃuːtə) /
a tube through which pellets such as dried peas are blown, used as a toy weapon
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