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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
This “Quaker gun” embarrassed McClellan and called into question his reports of
superior Confederate forces. The patience of northern people with the lack of
action against the saucy rebels had begun to wear thin. The Quaker gun incident
...
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With Lawton and Roberts: A Boy's Adventures in the ...
Indignant at the deception by which he had been . victimized, he spoke aloud in
his wrath and angrily kicked the stolid Quaker gun. " What's wrong, young'un ?
Wouldn't the gun go off ? " came the inquiry, as a soiled figure in khaki slouched ...
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, 1900
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American encyclopedic dictionary
The same as Quaker-gun (q. t.). Quakers-and-Shakers, 0. pi. Bot. : Briza media*
quaker-blrd, 0. Ornith. : Diomedea fuliginosa, the Sooty Albatross. quaker-grass,
0. Quaking-grass (q. v.) . quaker-gun, 0. An imitation of a gun, made of wood or ...
Robert Hunter, John Alfred Williams, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, 1897
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The American encyclopædic dictionary
Quaking-grass (q. v.). quaker-gun,*. An imitation of a gun, made of wood or other
material, and placed in the porthole of a vessel, or the embrasure of a fort, to
deceive the enemy. (So called from its inoffensivo character.) quak -fir-Sss, s. [
Eug.
S. J. Herrtage, John A. Williams, Robert Hunter, 1897
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
Quaker gun, a log of wood mounted on wheels or some other arrangement,
Imitating a cannon, designed to deceive the enemy : so called In humorous
allusion to the peace doctrines of the Quakers or Friends. To conceal the
absence of ...
William Dwight Whitney, 1889
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Fauquier County in the Revolution
It was impregnable to bullets, so Washington's horsemen could do nothing with it.
Washington had no artillery but he had considerable native guile. No one had
tried the "Quaker gun' trick lately. That ploy was to cut a pine log in the shape of a
...
Thomas Triplett Russell, John Kenneth Gott, 2008
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American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document ...
The term “Quaker gun” is a reference to the Society of Friends, the pacifist
religious denomination often called Quakers. Quaker guns played a small but
significant role in the American Civil War. One early example of Quaker guns
occurred on ...
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The imperial encyclopaedic dictionary: a new and exhaustive ...
[Friend, a., IT (4).] 2. The same as Quaker-gun (q. v.). Quakers-and-Shakers, 8. pi.
Bot. : Briza media. quaker-blrd, a. Ornith.: Diomedea fuliginoea, tho Sooty
Albatross. quaker-grass, s. Quaking-grass (q. v.). quaker-gun, 8. An imitation of a
trim ...
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Proceedings of the Advisory Council of Congregational ...
They only describe them as tt behind the scene: who originated not be
uninteresting to the public inventors of this Quaker gun are, give them due honor.
I have been a of them certainly, and. I think, all are eminent authorities, one in tl
other in ...
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A Secret of the Sea, &c
I never heard of a Quaker turning pirate, but I think that was a Quaker gun ! ' '
What ! ' shouted White, in intense surprise. 'The gun fired across our bows was
aimed through a port on the main-deck forward. The long gun was never fired at
all, ...
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Wordplay | Letter Accompanying Sin
I got held up briefly in the south west because I lamely guessed QUAKER ASH before QUAKER GUN, because I had never heard of this fascinating, nonviolent ... «New York Times, जुलै 15»
Bannermans Legacy: The ultimate Army-Navy store
A champion of military preparedness, (the US Army in 1914 was smaller than that of Belgium's), he sold 5-pound 'Quaker Guns' made from old broken muskets ... «Guns.com, सप्टेंबर 13»
