N2806/1725

鉄てっ砲ぽう

rarely used kanji formnounnoun (generic)sumocolloquial

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てっぽう

Meanings

gun, firearm
wooden pole that wrestlers strike in practice
puffer fish

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Example sentences

江戸えど時代じだいには多おおくの武士ぶしが鉄砲てっぽうを持もっていた。

In the Edo period, many samurai carried guns.

戦国せんごく時代じだいに鉄砲てっぽうが日本にほんに伝つたわったと言いわれている。

It is said that firearms were introduced to Japan during the Warring States period.

力士りきしは稽古けいこで鉄砲てっぽうを打うつことで上半身じょうはんしんを鍛きたえる。

Sumo wrestlers train their upper body by striking the wooden pole during practice.

彼かれは鉄砲てっぽうの扱あつかい方かたを専門家せんもんかから学まなんだ。

He learned how to handle a firearm from an expert.

河豚ふぐは毒どくを持もつことから鉄砲てっぽうとも呼よばれ、その名なは一発いっぱつ当あたれば命取いのちとりになることに由来ゆらいするとされる。

Puffer fish are also called 'teppo' because of their poison, a name said to derive from the fact that a single hit can be fatal.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)