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Sharps
[ shahrps ]
noun
- a single-shot, lever-action breechloader rifle patented in the U.S. in 1848 and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1850s.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Sharps1
After Christian Sharps (1811–74), U.S. gunsmith, who invented it
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