Peashooter (toy)

The peashooter (sometimes spelled pea-shooter or pea shooter) is a toy version of the blowgun or blowpipe.

As the name suggests the normal ammunition is peas (usually dried), though other seeds, fruits, improvised darts, or wadded up paper can also be used.

Some of these paintings show the toys that children used, including a depiction of a boy with a peashooter and visible projectile.

The target may be made of a soft substance (putty) so that the peas will stick into it or at least make indentations that easily identify the location of the hit.

[2] The Boeing P-26 Peashooter, a fighter aircraft, was nicknamed the shooter of peas because it has no visible armament (it had two machine guns on the floor of the cockpit shooting through the propeller).