shooting iron
See also: shooting-iron
English
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Noun
shooting iron (plural shooting irons)
- (chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun.
- 1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies:
- "It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron."
- 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXV, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 267:
- Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.
- 1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower:
- The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.
- 1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies:
Translations
firearm
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References
- “shooting iron”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.