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Steyr|ʃtaɪə(r)| The name of a town in Upper Austria used attrib. and absol. to designate a kind of automatic pistol made there.
1920H. B. C. Pollard Automatic Pistols iii. 24 The latest product of the Steyr factory, the celebrated armoury of the Mannlicher firm, is the 1916 Steyr Mannlicher pistol. Ibid. 26 Taking the Steyr in comparison with the Parabellum, it is less complicated than the latter, but not so well designed or easy to shoot with. 1934G. Burrard Identification of Firearms & Forensic Ballistics vii. 144 The rifling used in revolvers and self-loading pistols may be divided conveniently into the following..types: Steyr type, four grooves; right-hand twist; grooves and lands of equal width. Used in all earlier self-loading pistols, such as the Borchardt. 1972R. Gadney Seduction of Tall Man ii. v. 154 This is a Steyr pistol, made in Austria... Fixed barrel, detachable seven shot magazine. 1974A. Price Other Paths to Glory ii. viii. 211 The battered remains of an Austrian Steyr which he had bought. |