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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gun in which condensed air is used as the propelling agent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger. The common BB gun is a type of air gun.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of air gun.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
  • noun a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air

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