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
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 Mary Roberts Rinehart
Jimmy, however, was too adroit to dwell upon the subject, and, changing it abruptly, led Leland into a discussion of hammerless guns.
From By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss
He had lately become the possessor of a new hammerless gun by a well-known London maker, of which he stood in considerable need.
From Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life by Henry Rider Haggard
In 1862 Daw, and in 1866 Green, introduced hammerless guns in which the cocking was effected by the under lever.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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