hammerless
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hammerless
Example Sentences
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It was small, but large enough for a tiny, hammerless handgun he owned and sometimes, to his wife's horror, threatened to license and carry.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it is a hammerless gun, remember that it is always cocked.
From Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude H. Miller
His gun was the hammerless type; you couldn't easily tell when it was loaded or unloaded.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
As I was being told this I tried to remember where Dinky-Dunk had stowed away his revolver-holster and his hammerless ejector and his Colt repeater.
From The Prairie Wife by Harvey Dunn
From this date hammerless guns became really popular.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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