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A blunderbuss is an old gun, used from about the 1600s to the early 1800s. It has a short barrel that flares open at the mouth, like a trumpet, and it a spread of shot at close range — useful for guarding a coach or a door, not for careful aim across a field. You meet it in museums, in period films, and in stories about highwaymen. It is not a modern weapon, and it is not a type of mistake, though the English name was bent toward the word blunder. The Dutch original was donderbus, literally “thunder gun”; English speakers reshaped it under the influence of blunder. In careful use today the word still means that gun. People sometimes stretch it, jokingly, to a , scattershot way of doing things, but that is a later, figurative play, not the core sense here.
喇叭槍（舊式、口部外擴的短槍；不是「犯錯」的意思）
組成From Dutch donderbus, literally “thunder gun,” altered in English under the influence of blunder.
同家族的字
- blunderEnglish speakers pulled the Dutch name toward this familiar word; the gun is not named because it makes a mistake
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blunderbussnoun/ˈblʌn.dəˌbʌs/
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An old style of muzzleloading firearm and early form of shotgun with a distinctive short, large caliber barrel that is flared at the muzzle, therefore able to fire scattered quantities of nails, stones, shot, etc. at short range.
- We fired the blunderbuss several times by way of salute, and soon after landed at the bank near the village of the Mahahas, or Shoe Indians, and were received by a crowd of people, who came to welcome our return.
- One of the most picturesque of the old flintlock guns is the blunderbuss, which was often carried by coach guards for protection against highwaymen.
blunderbussverb/ˈblʌn.dəˌbʌs/
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To shoot with a blunderbuss.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。