Blunderbuss
Blunderbuss noun - Someone who bungles an effort.
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Gun and blunderbuss are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gun" instead a noun "Blunderbuss".
Gun
Gun noun - A portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder.
Usage example: while her father preferred hunting with a crossbow, she preferred a gun
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Nearby Word: gunroom
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Rool's blunderbuss is an example (you have to throw cannonballs at it so they explode in the gun).
Source: Weapons That Suck -
This is in spite of the gun in question being roughly equivalent to a blunderbuss.
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The British muskets of the Revolutionary War were called Brown Bess, although Bess is a corruption of buss (gun) as in blunderbuss.
Source: Named Weapons
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