English Explanatory Dictionary

mousetrap gun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A device patented by James Alexander Williams in 1882, consisting of a frame with a handgun or revolver rigged to fire when triggered by an animal stepping on a treadle.

Word forms

mousetrap gun mousetrap guns
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