shooting iron
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of shooting iron
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
Example Sentences
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A stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron, the M-3 is nevertheless rugged, light and easy to massproduce.
From Time Magazine Archive
He walked again to Idaho Springs with no ration book save his shooting iron.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the favorite amusement was shooting iron ramrods.
From In The Ranks From the Wilderness to Appomattox Court House by R. E. McBride
“You may scalp me, stranger, fer sayin’ it, but I’d like mightily well to heft that tha’ shooting iron o’ your’n and examine it when we git through with chuck,” he said.
From The Black Wolf Pack by Daniel Carter Beard
"I'll give you some of the plunder, if you'll put up that shooting iron, and make no trouble."
From Try and Trust by Horatio Alger
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