Shotgun
A shotgun — heavy, scattering, blunt — often touches domestic troubles and worry with children and servants, with justified wrath if you fire both barrels. The dream may ask where exasperating, unfeeling treatment is pushing your patience past its limit, and whether the anger building in you is a fury you have every right to feel.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for shotgun, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of a shotgun, foretells domestic troubles and worry with children and servants.
To shoot both barrels of a double-barreled shotgun, foretells that you will meet such exasperating and unfeeling attention in your private and public life that suave manners giving way under the strain and your righteous wrath will be justifiable.
[206] See Pistol, Revolver, etc.