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shooting iron en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun.
   • "It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron." 1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies:
   • The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron. 1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower:
   • Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand. 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 damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand." 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxv. 183:

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Translations (5)

sv skjutjärn (firearm) · fi paukkurauta (firearm) · de Schießeisen (firearm) · fi reikärauta (firearm) · bg огнестрелно оръжие (firearm)