单词 | hammerless |
释义 | hammerlessadj. Without a hammer: esp. of a gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by method of firing flintless1810 rimfire1867 hammerless1875 front-action1881 flintlocked1885 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. i. ii. §4. 44 The hammerless gun. 1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 34 In matter of safety the hammerless has the advantage of the hammer gun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1875 |
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