blunderbush

"Force of 'abit, sir; ye see, I've carried that theer old blunderbush for a matter of five-an'-twenty year, an' my feyther 'e carried it afore me."

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

So my feyther -- being a bold cove -- reached down for 'is blunderbush -- this werry same old blunderbush as I 've got under the box at this i-dentical minute, (though its trigger veren't broke then) but, afore' e can get it out, into the road leaps a man on a great black

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

[31] A blunderbush, or blunderbuss, was a kind of large pistol, with a flaring muzzle.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

"And, now" says he, "mind I have my blunderbush, and if ye take a step nearer ye're as good as deid."

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

"And, now" says he, "mind I have my blunderbush, and if ye take a step nearer ye're as good as deid."

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Begone, or by the livin 'Farmer, I'll scatter the contents of this blunderbush among you.'

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

--- I swore away the lives of two innocent men -- I proved three alibis for three of as black villains as ever stretched a rope or charged a blunderbush!

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

_blunderbush_, and to let him have a bit of the fighting.

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

And where would I be with my blunderbush? "he snarled.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

And where would I be with my blunderbush? "he snarled.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872