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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 92 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLUNDERBUSS (a corruption of the Dutch dander,
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thunder, and the Dutch bus; cf. Ger. Biichse, a
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box or
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tube, hence a thunder-box or
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gun)  , an obsolete muzzle-loading firearm with a
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bell-shaped muzzle . Its calibre was large so that it could contain many balls or slugs, and it was intended to be fired at a
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short range, so that some of the
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charge was sure to take effect . The word is also used by
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analogy to describe a blundering and
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random
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person or talker .

End of Article: BLUNDERBUSS (a corruption of the Dutch dander, thunder, and the Dutch bus; cf. Ger. Biichse, a box or tube, hence a thunder-box or gun)
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