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Air Gun
Webster's Dictionary
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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Air Gun'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/air-gun.html. 1828.