英语词汇“Derringer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

Derringer

释义

Derringer U.S.|ˈdɛrɪndʒə(r)|
Also Deringer.
[from the surname of the inventor, Henry Deringer (1786–1868), a gunsmith in U.S.]
A small pistol with large bore, very effective at short range. Also attrib.
1853G. D. Brewerton Overland with Kit Carson (1930) 188 A preventive to interference..in the shape of Bowie knives, ‘Derringers’, and ‘six-shooters’.1854J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. Texas I. iii. 48 My carriage driver carried a pair of Deringer pistols.1856B. Harte Poems, Dow's Flat, With a shovel and pick on his shoulder, and a derringer hid in his breast.1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly Prol., To have both bowie and Derringer ready to hand.1890Century Mag. Jan. 435/1 A large derringer bullet had entered the back of the head [of Pres. Lincoln].
fig.1890Daily News 4 Dec. 5/2 Tiny tomes, literary derringers for the waistcoat pocket.

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