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Sharps U.S.|ʃɑːps|
Also with small initial.
The name of Christian Sharps (1811–74), American gunsmith, applied absol. to any of a number of firearms invented and manufactured by him; esp. a celebrated variety of breech-loading, single-shot rifle. Also in the possessive and attrib.
1850Sci. Amer. 9 Mar. 193/2 (heading) Sharps' breech⁓loading patent rifle. 1873Forest & Stream XXIX. 2 As long as the Indian agents send cases of breech-loading Sharps marked ‘hardware’..as Government annuity, we must expect these murders, robberies, etc., on the part of the Indians. 1929B. Davis Truth about Geronimo 161 His gun, an antiquated Sharps rifle, had gone off accidentally. 1958‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs xv. 176 Doc Harnaday and his old Sharps could..‘hit a yearling bull..at 900 yards’. |