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sealing gun 
n. a harpoon gun used in hunting seals.
See also: seal gun swiling gun
- 1871 (1872) Such a herd [of cariboo] being discovered in a plain, an army of pot hunters, armed with sealing guns, issue forth and surround the deer.
- 1889 Some of the men . . . carry a long sealing-gun on their shoulders.
- 1957 It was not likely, he supposed, that I had ever seen in Canada the like of this sealing gun used by his grandfather.
- 1871 (1872) Such a herd [of cariboo] being discovered in a plain, an army of pot hunters, armed with sealing guns, issue forth and surround the deer.