speargun

See also: spear gun

English

Etymology

spear +‎ gun

Noun

speargun (plural spearguns)

1. A tube-shaped gun that fires a barbed spear, almost always for underwater use.
   • 2007 July 29, Brendan I. Koerner, “A Trimmer Gun to Spear Smaller Fry”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The five Euro Series spearguns, whose stocks range in length from 102 to 145 centimeters (about 40 to 57 inches), went on sale in January 2006, priced from $380 to $474.

Translations

a gun that fires a spear (normally used underwater)

• Finnish: harppuunapyssy
• Russian: подво́дное ружьё n (podvódnoje ružʹjó), гарпу́нное ружьё n (garpúnnoje ružʹjó)