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- noun Plural form of
potgun .
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Examples
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This by the means of a most dreadful powder, whose hellish compound and effect has even amazed nature, and made her own herself outdone by art, the Oxydracian thunders, hails, and storms by which the people of that name immediately destroyed their enemies in the field being but mere potguns to these.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This by the means of a most dreadful powder, whose hellish compound and effect has even amazed nature, and made her own herself outdone by art, the Oxydracian thunders, hails, and storms by which the people of that name immediately destroyed their enemies in the field being but mere potguns to these.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This by the means of a most dreadful powder, whose hellish compound and effect has even amazed nature, and made her own herself outdone by art, the Oxydracian thunders, hails, and storms by which the people of that name immediately destroyed their enemies in the field being but mere potguns to these.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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