Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A portable firearm of the earliest pattern, having the barrel mounted on a straight stock, which was held under the arm or pressed against the breast. The piece was fired by a match.
- noun A musket.
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Examples
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As a technicality, all Terminators must likewise be excluded, for be it Arnie, Patrick, or that freaky hand-cannon bitch, all those assassins were machines, hence not technically hitMEN.
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Was that hand-cannon of yours not enough incentive to keep his mouth shut?
A Job of Work Seamus Bellamy 2011
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Hence, they figure it might have been Mister Big's personal hand-cannon. '
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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In my right hand, a photomatic hand-cannon: friend, lover, confidante, dispatcher of goons.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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A sequence set on a crumbling overpass bridge with the ruins of civilisation strewn about it is reminiscent of the Fallout games although at no point does the main character construct a steam-powered, railway sleeper-firing hand-cannon or, more appropriately, The Road, though with more teenage angst.
The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan Adam Whitehead 2009
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A sequence set on a crumbling overpass bridge with the ruins of civilisation strewn about it is reminiscent of the Fallout games although at no point does the main character construct a steam-powered, railway sleeper-firing hand-cannon or, more appropriately, The Road, though with more teenage angst.
Archive 2009-12-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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He told me about the time his daughter had her first real date: Bob had this hand-cannon out on the breakfast table, cleaning it , when the boy arrived.
"Does same-sex marriage threaten your freedoms of speech and religion?" Ann Althouse 2008
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Hence, they figure it might have been Mister Big's personal hand-cannon. '
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005
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Hence, they figure it might have been Mister Big's personal hand-cannon. '
Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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Before that the match had been held in the hand in using the hand-gun as well as the hand-cannon.
Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach Christopher Hare
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