subs. phr. (old).—An amateur gun; a PLASTERER (q.v.).—GROSE (1785).
1614. The Cold Year [NARES]. It was a shame that poore harmlesse birds could not be suffered to save themselves under a bush … but that every paltrie PETER-GUNNER must shoote fire and brimstone at them.
1633. SHIRLEY, The Witty Fair One, ii. 2. I smell powder … this PETER-GUNNER should have given fire.
