Crossword-Solution: BLUNDERBUSS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blunderbuss | n. | A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. |
| Blunderbuss | n. | A stupid, blundering fellow. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “BLUNDERBUSS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 18th century weapon | 1 answer |
| Gun with a flaring muzzle | 1 answer |
| Musket like weapon | 1 answer |
| Musket with a flared muzzle | 1 answer |
| Muzzle-loading firearm | 1 answer |
| Pilgrim's weapon | 1 answer |
| Awkward one | 13 answers |
| firearm | 32 answers |
| bungler | 32 answers |
| Gun | 58 answers |
| Oaf | 68 answers |
| Weapon. | 98 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with BLUNDERBUSS (5)
The watchful guard, with his right hand at the stock of his raised blunderbuss, his left at the barrel, and his eye on the horseman, answered curtly, “Sir.” “There is nothing to apprehend.
For a choice, I would a hundred times sooner be returned to Edinburgh Castle and my corner in the bastion, than to leave my foot in a steel trap or have to digest the contents of an automatic blunderbuss.
What more could you ast?” “That she understand what love means before I can accept what she offers.” “You puddin' head! You blunderbuss!” cried Granny.
Next the visitor turned to news of a more thrilling character: how the down mail had been stopped again near Grantham by three men on horseback—a white and two bays; how they had handkerchiefs on their faces; how Tom the guard’s blunderbuss missed fire, but he swore he had winged one of them with a pistol; and how they had got clean away with seventy pounds in money, some valuable papers, and a watch or two.
For the rusty blunderbuss of Scots criminal justice, which usually hurt nobody but jurymen, became a weapon of precision for the Nicksons, the Ellwalds, and the Crozers.
Quotes with BLUNDERBUSS (2)
Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it. I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen …
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1983–2014).