sealing gun

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a harpoon gun used in hunting seals.

Quotations

1871

Such a herd [of cariboo] being discovered in a plain, an army of pot hunters, armed with sealing guns, issue forth and surround the deer.

1889

Some of the men . . . carry a long sealing-gun on their shoulders.

1957

It was not likely, he supposed, that I had ever seen in Canada the like of this sealing gun used by his grandfather.