鉄砲

Meaning

1. n
   gun; firearm
2. n
   wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice
3. n
   puffer fish

Example sentences

• 矢でも鉄砲でも持ってこい。

  Let them all come.

• 彼が鉄砲を掃除していたら暴発し、もう少しで妻に当たるところだった。

  The gun went off while he was cleaning it, and the bullet almost struck his wife.

• 合衆国では２億１６００万丁もの鉄砲類が、民間の手にあるという。

  In the U.S., as many as 216 million firearms are said to be in private hands.