10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POTGUN»
Discover the use of
potgun in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
potgun and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
him potgun. He made his head have a bore in't like a musket. SIlVIo I would he
had made a touch-hole to't. 30 DElIo He is indeed a guarded sumpter cloth only
for the remove of the court. [Enter BoSolA.] PESCARA Bosola arrived?
John Webster, Leah Marcus, 2009
2
Dictionary, English-German and German-English ...
potgun,. • cracker. $ 11 d 11 e II , r. r. n. to clap, crack, give a report; v, r. a. mil bet
$etlf$C to clash. ,£ n a I ( g o ( b , n. fulminating cold. ^ n a p p / adj. olose , close -
bodied ; tin fnapper jXotf a strait coat ; f. fpar-- lld) scarce, wanting, deficient; f, ...
Nathan Bailey, Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger, 1801
3
The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon: ...
... settle 86 howsoever] MS; howosever Fi V.iii (Omitted from MS) -] - ; A MS; i2
choyce;- Fi " H-i7. 2, 37 dainty] danry Fi 7 conscience?] --- , Fi i0 question.] -*- ? Fi
i2 Courtier?] ~- . Fi i5 Pedlers] Pedlers Fi 23 Potgun] Potgun Fi 47 bespokeA] - , Fi
...
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Fredson Bowers, 1996
4
Cavendish and Shakespeare: Interconnections
In that text, as well, she admits to readers that "the shooting of a gun, although but
a potgun, will make me start, and stop my hearing, much less have I courage to
discharge one."43 Yet like so many of Cavendish's letters, "Epistle to Souldiers,"
...
Katherine Romack, James Fitzmaurice, 2006
5
The History and Antiquities of Carlisle: with an Account of ...
One little potgun of brass. Demibomberdiers 2. Basses double and single 12,
lacking furniture. Half staggs 39, not scrviceablc. Bowes of ewe, none. Arrows,
sixscore sheets; in decay. Morispikcs 30, not good. Sagur shot of iron 58. Sagar
shot ...
6
The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland ...
One little potgun of brass. Demibomberders 2. Bastes double and single 12,
lacking furniture. Half staggs 39, not serviceable. Bows of ewe, none. Arrows,
sixscore sheafs ; in decay. Morispikes 30, not good. Sagar mot of iron 58. Sagar
shot of ...
Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, William Nicolson, 1777
7
The history and antiquities of Carlisle [by S. Jefferson].
One little potgun of brass. Demibomberdiers 2. Basses double and single 12,
lacking furniture. Half staggs 39, not serviceable. Bowes of ewe, none. Arrows,
sixscore sheafs ; in decay. Morispikes 30, not good. Sagar shot of iron 58. Sagar
shot ...
8
John Florio: A Worlde of Wordes
SCHIOPPETTINI, little dags or potguns. Also a kind of Augustine friers so called.
SCHIOPPETTO, a little dag, pistoll or handgun, a potgun. SCHIOPPO, a dag, a
pistoll, a hand-gun, a potgun, a snaphance, a harquibuse. Also a crack, a
bursting, ...
Popgun was formerly corrupted into potgun, which was the name of an ancient
piece of ordnance. Selopus . . a potgun made of an elderne sticke, or hollow qudl
, wbereoutboyesshoote chawen paper. — Nomenclator, 1585. Jonson in his ...
10
A General Dictionary of the English Language
In power or possibility, not in act or positively ; in efficacy, not in actuality.
POTENTLY, potently. ad. Powerfully, forcibly. POTENTNESS, po-tint-nis. s.
Powerful- ness, might, power. POTGUN, POTGUN, pot'-gun. s. A gun which
makes a small ...
