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Six-shooter

A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver.

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Colt 76% connected

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

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Pistol 76% connected

The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.

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Revolver 92% connected

One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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