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Sharps

American

[shahrps] / ʃɑrps /

noun

a single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s.

After Christian Sharps (1811–74), U.S. gunsmith, who invented it

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