mousetrap gun

English

Noun

mousetrap gun (plural mousetrap guns)

  1. (weaponry, historical) 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.
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