quaker : Idioms & Phrases

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Quaker buttons

  • . (Bot.) See Nux vomica.
Webster 1913

Quaker gun

  • noun a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
WordNet
  • a dummy cannon made of wood or other material; so called because the sect of Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance.
Webster 1913

Quaker ladies

  • (Bot.), a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cærulea), with pretty four-lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish center; also called bluets, and little innocents.
Webster 1913