What's the difference between blunderbuss and musketoon?

Blunderbuss


Definition:

  • (n.) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
  • (n.) A stupid, blundering fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
  • (2) Likewise, Labour should think carefully about plans to pursue the politics of envy or milk the capital with blunderbuss tactics such as a mansion tax.
  • (3) Lazaretto, the follow-up to 2012's Blunderbuss, will be released through White's Third Man Records on 9 June.
  • (4) The complaints were levelled most explicitly in a 2012 article in the Atlantic magazine, entitled " Jack White's Women Problem ", which painted White as a dinosaur who was controlling towards women and guilty of patronising them in his songs, such as Freedom at 21 from Blunderbuss .
  • (5) With his first solo album, 2012's Blunderbuss , there was endless speculation about how personal White – hot from his divorce from British supermodel Elson – had got, with the singer forced to reaffirm that he would never be stupid enough to write open letters to loved ones, past or present.
  • (6) The singer's first solo LP, Blunderbuss, was released in 2012, and White has recently released a new single with his band Dead Weather .
  • (7) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
  • (8) Click here to watch High Ball Stepper Unlike Blunderbuss, which White issued as several special packages, Lazaretto will get only one limited-edition treatment.
  • (9) Modes of therapy aimed at one particular chain of events have varying degrees of success, as indeed does more blunderbuss treatment with steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs, or cytotoxic agents.
  • (10) Attempts are being made to modify the present blunderbuss attack on the immune system with more specific methods of control of certain of its components.
  • (11) In February, White told Rolling Stone that he was already working on "20 to 25 tracks" for a followup to his solo debut, 2012's Blunderbuss .
  • (12) Blunderbuss debuted at No 1 in the UK, spending 14 years on the album chart.
  • (13) Overall, including more than 80,000 digital purchases, Lazaretto sold about 138,000 copies - the same figure as White's solo debut, 2012's Blunderbuss.
  • (14) United pressed with ever-increasing urgency but the accuracy of a blunderbuss and Wales’s standard bearers held on to their lead without real difficulty to record the double over their distinguished opponents for the first time.

Musketoon


Definition:

  • (n.) A short musket.
  • (n.) One who is armed with such a musket.

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