speargun

noun

Definition of speargunnext
as in rifle

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Recent Examples of speargun There is one delightful sequence where a fire ax, giant fishhook and speargun come into play on a gangway. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 Dakota, who is paddling toward her in a boat, then uses a speargun to help fight off the sharks. — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026 Fish and wildlife police are looking for the culprit who shot an American crocodile with a speargun in the Florida Keys over the weekend. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025 When Ray attacks Julie, Ava shoots him through the back with his speargun, killing him. — Megan McCluskey, Time, 18 July 2025 That afternoon, Mariottini went diving, hunting for amberjacks and sea bream with his speargun. — Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 12 July 2025 Because the fish can both hear noise and feel vibrations, divers must take care not to, say, bump their speargun on the bottom while listening for croaks. — Mike Raabe, Outdoor Life, 2 July 2025 This means that Hara had to catch the fish in 60-degree water with all her gear — a 10-pound weight belt, snorkel, fins and 2-pound EduSub speargun. — Kaila Yu, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022 The hope is that a robust consumer market will incentivize lionfish hunting, and that humans with spearguns will become the predators that invasive lionfish need. — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speargun
  1. rifle
  2. shotgun
  3. pistol
  4. musket
  5. blunderbuss
  6. flintlock
  7. handgun
  8. harquebus
Noun
  • Soldiers from a separate task force rifle battalion of the National Police of Ukraine in the Zaporizhzhia region carry a GARA UAV to a shelter in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 16, 2026.
    — Anastasiia Parafeniuk, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • According to court documents, an officer spotted the elder Smith brother running behind a residence, and the younger brother was later found running in the same yard while holding an AR-style rifle.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of rifle
Noun
  • The teacher bolted from the room as the shooter reached for his shotgun.
    — Russ Bynum, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Mark Middleton, 59, (May 2022) — died of a shotgun wound and hanging at the Heifer ranch in Perryville, Arkansas.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of shotgun
Noun
  • Video taken from inside a vehicle captured some of the scuffle, including the attacker getting up, striking Batista in the head with the butt of a pistol and taking off as the victim lies motionless in the street.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • At one point during the fight, Garzon is seen on surveillance video grabbing a pistol from his cross-body bag and shooting it around three times at the victim.
    — WCCO Staff, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of pistol
Noun
  • There were about sixty of them aboard the Cuyahoga Packet, and they were armed with swords and muskets.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The ink came from the buds of oak leaves, swollen to the size of musket balls by the eggs of wasps.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of musket
Noun
  • The blunderbuss of violations of the basic decorum and dignity of democracy have become such a daily matter that the increasingly familiar response is to sigh and surrender.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
    — Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Definition of blunderbuss
Noun
  • Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
    — Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
Definition of flintlock
Noun
  • That’s roughly comparable to the muzzle energy of some powerful handgun rounds, although the physics of a hypervelocity impact are very different.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Investigators said a gunman in a gold or brown pickup truck pulled alongside 65-year-old Singh and his friend, 78-year-old Atwal, on East Stockton Boulevard near Geneva Point Drive and opened fire with a semiautomatic handgun.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of handgun
Noun
  • To put that in perspective, when Beretta started making arquebus barrels, Michelangelo was still working in Rome.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of harquebus

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“Speargun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speargun. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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