pepperbox

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Out of his coat pocket hung the curved butt of a pepperbox revolver.

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  • The wood and stone pepperbox was stubbornly slow to take fire at all, let alone blaze up to the heights necessary to be seen from miles around. —  Loretta Chase - Lord of Scoundrels
  • Just because a concept doesn't have much use in the real world never stopped anyone from paying good money. concerns the Apache, a 19th Century pepperbox that combined a pistol, spike bayonet, and knuckle duster all in one compact package. —  Hell in a Handbasket
  • "Then we are well matched," came the reply, "for they say you are a pepperbox." —  The Tory Maid
  • Similar in action to a pepperbox. —  A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"
  • Out of his coat pocket hung the curved butt of a pepperbox revolver. —  The Crisis — Volume 05
 

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