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Quaker gun

 
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–noun
a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
Origin:
1800–10, Americanism
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Quaker gun  
n.  A dummy gun made of wood.

[From the Quakers' opposition to war.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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