Quaker gun (English, noun)
expansion: Quaker gun (plural Quaker guns)
Senses:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or an artillery piece, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.
tags: US
historical
idiomatic
Forms:
form: Quaker guns
tags: plural
form: quaker gun
tags: alternative