English Dictionary

Quaker gun

noun

(chiefly US, idiomatic, military, weaponry) A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.

The soldiers used a Quaker gun to deceive the enemy.

意味（1）

(chiefly US, idiomatic, military, weaponry) A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.

At all events, your honour, I will carry the quaker in, said Joyce, tossing the stuffed figure on a shoulder. He do to man the quaker gun at least, and may be of use in frightening some one of the other side.