Blunderbuss: alternatives and connections

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or…

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…

of Bear

A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will c…

A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a…

A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with…

A roll or case of paper, etc., holding a charge for a firearm; a cartridge

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly calle…

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; tr…

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the…

A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar.