Blunderbuss
Blunderbuss noun - Someone who bungles an effort.
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Synonyms for Blunderbuss
Rifle and blunderbuss are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rifle" instead a noun "Blunderbuss".
Rifle
Rifle noun - A shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore.
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It's perfectly serviceable as either a rifle, a sniper rifle, or a shotgun/blunderbuss, though the long reload isn't for everyone.
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The brobdingnagian spaceship Nostalgia for Infinity has a warchive containing examples of over four million hand weapons — spanning twelve centuries of gunsmithing from blunderbuss to plasma rifle.
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In Real Life this is partially played straight: Just compare a stone age spear to a medieval ranseur, or a bronze age sword with a Sengoku-period Katana, or a blunderbuss to a modern rifle.
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