pea rifle

noun

1. a small rifle

Example Sentences

It was not until he had left and returned again with a pea-rifle and a violin that Frederick recognised the brave private, Bulke.

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Britch-loaders hadn't been in so durn long, and men didn't go huntin' grizzlies with the little old pea rifle just for fun.

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He had a good pea-rifle, and one afternoon he started to teach Mary to shoot at a target.

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They are, however, now seldom used except for rook-shooting; and even there the pea-rifle has almost entirely superseded them.

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But nobody comes up to my slaying of an elephant in Assam with a pea rifle.

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