sandgun

English[edit]

From sand +‎ gun

sandgun (plural sandguns)

(rare) A device used to sandblast; sandblaster.
- 1944 March and April, E. S. Waterhouse, “Two Footplate Rides on "Merchant Navy" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
  This engine has shields fitted which seemed to lift the exhaust better than the ordinary streamline casing of 21C9, and an L.M.S.R. sandgun which was used en route had good effect.
- 1952, The Railway Gazette - Volume 96, page 23:
  Other special fittings include a Clyde patent sandgun for tube cleaning.
- 1952, The Locomotive, Railway Carriage & Wagon Review, page 170:
  9 Gresham & Craven live steam injectors, Clyde sandgun and Joco balanced regulator with drifting device.
A pipe that is used to suck up objects from a river or sea bed.
- 1967, U.S. Camera and Travel - Volume 30, page 33:
  The air lift, or sandgun, sucks up the sand and mud, expelling particles everywhere, unless a tide is running.
(science fiction) A weapon that shoots sand or a sandlike substance.
- 2013, John Barnes, The Duke of Uranium:
  If someone deliberately set off the sandgun, I think I'm very possibly what they were aiming for.
- 2020, Marc Miller, Agent of the Imperium:
  Trance was raising his sandgun when the blastwave hit.
- 2020, Da Ba, Beauty's Special Magical Doctor:
  The sandgun did burst out, sending the biting cold sand flying in all directions. However, it did not explode from the muzzle of the gun, but from the middle of the spear shaft!