Quaker gun

Hey kiddo, have you ever played a game of pretending to have a toy gun and making sounds like you're shooting at your friends? Well, adults actually did a similar kind of pretending a long time ago during battles. But instead of it being a game, it was a trick to confuse the enemy and make them think that they were facing a big, dangerous weapon. They called this trick a "Quaker gun."

A Quaker gun is not a real gun, it's just a fake wooden or metal thing that looks like a cannon or big piece of artillery, but it doesn't actually shoot anything. It's just used to make the enemy think that it's there and ready to be used against them.

Quakers are a religious group that believes in non-violence and peace, so pretending to have a cannon instead of using real violence was kind of like a way of tricking and avoiding violence at the same time. It's like saying "we have a big weapon, but we don't want to hurt you, so please surrender."

So, to sum it up, a Quaker gun is a fake weapon used as a trick during battles to confuse enemies and avoid violence. It's kind of like playing with a toy gun, but for grown-ups during serious times.