10-gauge
Americannoun
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Also called 10-gauge shotgun. a shotgun using a shell of approximately 0.775 inch (1.97 centimeters) in diameter.
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the shell itself.
Example Sentences
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The wire powering your electric clothes dryer is almost always a 10-gauge wire.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2021
In addition to a mini-revolver and a couple varmint rifles, Blaine keeps a 10-gauge shotgun over their front door.
From The Verge • Jun. 25, 2018
No more than three shells in a gun, and no gun larger than 10-gauge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again there may be no baiting, no live decoys, no sink boxes or batteries, no guns larger than 10-gauge, or carrying more than three shells.
From Time Magazine Archive
About the time the 10-gauge comes over to the Colonel, with the compliments of the Wells-Fargo Express, an' twenty shells holdin' twenty-one buck-shot to the shell, Doc Peets himse'f comes sa'nterin' into the sanctum.
From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry
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