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spear gun

noun

a device for shooting a barbed missile under water, usually by means of gas under pressure, a strong rubber band, or a powerful spring.

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Words nearby spear gun

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Examples from the Web for spear gun

  • Ashe dug the butt of his spear-gun into the sand on the flooring to uncover another oval depression.

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  • His spear-gun, the knife at his waist belt, neither were protection against this!

    Key Out of Time|Andre Alice Norton

British Dictionary definitions for spear gun

spear gun

noun

a device for shooting spears underwater
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012