Usually means: Fake cannon used as decoy.
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  1. Quaker gun, Quaker gun: Merriam-Webster
  2. Quaker gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Quaker gun: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Quaker gun: Vocabulary.com
  5. Quaker gun: Wordnik
  6. Quaker gun, quaker gun: Wiktionary
  7. Quaker gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Quaker gun, quaker gun: Dictionary.com
  9. Quaker Gun, Quaker gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Quaker gun: Rhymezone
  11. quaker gun: FreeDictionary.org
  12. quaker gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Quaker gun: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Quaker gun)

noun:  (chiefly US, idiomatic, military, weaponry) A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.
noun:  Alternative form of Quaker gun [(chiefly US, idiomatic, military, weaponry) A nonfunctional imitation of a gun or of a piece of artillery, typically made of wood and usually intended to deceive enemy forces into overestimating one's available firepower.]

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