·noun A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders;
— called also murdering piece.
II. Murderer ·noun One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
The name formerly used for large blunderbusses, as well as for those small pieces of ordnance which ...
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·noun A <<Suicide>>. ...
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