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
Jim's was a twelve bore, hammerless; Dick's a more ponderous and old-fashioned ten-gage hammer gun.
From Dick Randall The Young Athlete by Clark, Ellery H.
He drew the new hammerless shotgun out of its heavy tan leather case and made her peep through the barrels to see how dazzlingly free they were from rust.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
And who has a better right to the bay horse and the new hammerless ejector than the nephew of the man who never uses them?
From Lorimer of the Northwest by Dewey, Alfred James
You can get them still, but you’ve got to go to Kankakee and take a hammerless along.
From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace
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