shooting iron

Historical Examples of shooting iron

• I asked him if he used the shooting-iron to keep his landlord in order.

  Ireland as It Is

  Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

• You're very plucky, all because your mate has got a shooting-iron.

  Australia Revenged

  Boomerang

• But first I want that shooting-iron; it might go off by accident and hurt some one badly.'

  The Golden Butterfly

  Walter Besant

• The actual fact was that, although every man of us had some sort of a "shooting-iron," they were not formidable.

  Crossing the Plains, Days of '57

  William Audley Maxwell

• Then, as Purdee's laughter still jarred the air, he drew a "shooting-iron" from his pocket.

  The Riddle Of The Rocks

  Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)