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 gun was a beautiful twelve-gage hammerless, of late design and American manufacture, bored for trap shooting.
From Frank Merriwell's Reward by Standish, Burt L.
If it is a hammerless gun, remember that it is always cocked.
From Outdoor Sports and Games by Miller, Claude H.
When the new hammerless breech-loaders came into use two or three years ago, Mr. Douglas Hyde heard a Connaught gentleman speak of them as the "mweeal" guns, because they had no cocks.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
From this date hammerless guns became really popular.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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