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
Perhaps this is an argument in favour of a hammerless gun!
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
A very important improvement was the introduction of the hammerless gun, in which the mechanism for firing is placed entirely within the gun.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The naturalist carried a Colt's revolver; the Big Boy had a twelve-gauge hammerless, called a "howitzer."
From Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
The most popular type is the .450 and .475 cordite double-barreled ejector, hammerless rifles, and these are the ones that every elephant hunter should have.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.
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