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Webster 1913 Edition
Six-shooter
Six′-shootˊer
,Noun.
A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.
[Colloq. U.S.]
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English
Noun
six-shooter (plural six-shooters)
- (colloquial, dated) A revolver which holds six cartridges.
- 1979, L'Amour, Louis, Bendigo Shafter, ISBN 9780553123548, OL 24369989M:
- Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.
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