| 单词 | pepperbox pistol |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspepperbox pistol b. An early type of gun in which five or six barrels revolve round a central axis. Also pepperbox pistol, pepperbox revolver. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of six-shooter1844 five-shooter1848 belt revolver1853 six-shooting1858 pepperbox1861 service revolver1864 navy1867 six chamber1877 forty-five1881 pepper castor1889 hip revolver1897 six-gun1912 six chamber revolver1922 police special1935 thirty-two1942 thirty-eight1953 1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 7 Dec. 3/2 The pistol is one of the old-fashioned pepper-box sort—self-cocking, and..is regarded as dangerous at either end. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It ii. 23 An old original ‘Allen’ revolver, such as irreverent people called a ‘pepper-box’. 1901 W. Churchill Crisis ii. xviii. 280 Out of his pocket hung the curved butt of a big pepper-box revolver. 1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-Niner iii. 26 Donovan..jumped a claim, and when the rightful owner warned him off he drew an Allen's pepper box and shot Tracy. 1920 C. W. Sawyer Our Rifles 65 The rifle was made about 1855, when pepper-box pistols were in everyday use. 1990 ‘J. Gash’ Very Last Gambado (1991) xxv. 215 He fetched his weapons and laid them on a blanket... Three Tower service percussions.., a relic..flintlock barely clinging to its fractured walnut stock, and a pepperbox. < as lemmas |
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