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单词 to blow from a gun
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to blow from (the mouth of) a gun
c. to blow from (the mouth of) a gun, etc.: to execute summary justice on (a traitor, etc.) by binding him to the muzzle of a gun and firing the piece.
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to blow from (the mouth of) a gun1857
1776 Monthly Rev. 55 276 I ordered..the artillery officers to prepare to blow them away.]
1857 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 389/1 That if there be 10,000 who refuse to use them, they are to be blown away from cannon.
1885 Cent. Mag. Jan. 411/2 That Black Idol..Was..Blown hellward from the cannon's mouth.
1893 W. S. Gilbert Rosencrantz & Guildenstern 11 The Bench of Bishops seize you..And blow you from a gun.
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