potato-gun

All at once, when one is jogging along stupidly in the sun, and thinking about something ever so far away, here they come, at a stormy gallop, spurring and whooping at those ridgy old sore-backed plugs till their heels fly higher than their heads, and as they whiz by, out comes a little potato-gun of a revolver, there is a startling little pop, and a small pellet goes singing through the air.

The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872

All at once, when one is jogging along stupidly in the sun, and thinking about something ever so far away, here they come, at a stormy gallop, spurring and whooping at those ridgy old sore-backed plugs till their heels fly higher than their heads, and as they whiz by, out comes a little potato-gun of a revolver, there is a startling little pop, and a small pellet goes singing through the air.

The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

* I don't wanna scold the keen ingenuity of Leonardo 19-year-old Da Vinci here, but he built a potato-gun out of spray-cans and plastic sewer pipes and he set it off * inside a condo in Rome.

Warren Ellis 2009