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fog gun

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noun

  1. a gun, fired at regular intervals, used as a warning signal in fog.

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Admiral Sir A. Milne said he had often gone into Halifax harbor, in a dense fog like a wall, by the sound of the Sambro fog gun.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

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