quaker-gun
Quaker gun
noun
a dummy gun, as on a ship or fort: so called in allusion to the Quakers' opposition to war.
Origin:
1800–10, Americanism
1800–10, Americanism
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| Quaker gun | |
| —n | |
| a dummy gun, as of wood | |
| [alluding to the Quakers' traditional pacifism] | |
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