elder-gun

== English == === Alternative forms === elderne gun, eller-gun === Noun === elder-gun (plural elder-guns) A popgun made of a hollowed shoot of elder, i.e. a harmless weapon. c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (Quarto 1, 1600): [...] tis a great displeasureThat an elder gun, can do against a cannon,Or a subiect against a monarke. c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, line 2046 (First Folio, 1623): [...] that's a perillous shot out of an Elder Gunne, that a poore and a priuate displeasure can doe against a Monarch. === References === C. T. Onions, A Shakespeare Glossary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911)