Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A double-barreled gun.
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Examples
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Those medicines which are vulgar, and serve for the ordinary poison, are made of the juice of a root called tupara; the same also quencheth marvellously the heat of burning fevers, and healeth inward wounds and broken veins that bleed within the body.
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Those medicines which are vulgar, and serve for the ordinary poison, are made of the juice of a root called tupara; the same also quencheth marvellously the heat of burning fevers, and healeth inward wounds and broken veins that bleed within the body.
The Discovery of Guiana Walter Raleigh 1586
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It will wear a torn motorcycle jacket, and wield a chainsaw in one hand and a sawn-off tupara in the other.
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