Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Discharging from seven chambers or barrels; firing seven shots without reloading: as, a seven-shooting rifle.
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Examples
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Before I could get on a fresh cap, Captain Field came running up with his seven-shooting rifle, and the first fire he killed a Yankee.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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Colonel Field, then commanding our brigade, and on his fine gray mare, rode up almost face to face with General Jackson, before he was killed, and Colonel Field was shooting all the time with his seven-shooting rifle.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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He knew his rifle was a good one, however, for it was a seven-shooting repeater of the latest and best pattern, and had been selected for him by Murray himself out of a lot the Lipans had brought in, nobody knew from where.
The Talking Leaves An Indian Story William Osborn Stoddard 1880
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Brockenbrough's brigade, with their bullet-pierced battle flags, and on the other side were dismounted men of the 8th Illinois cavalry regiment armed with their seven-shooting carbines.
Reminiscences of a Rebel Wayland Fuller Dunaway 1878
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I tell you, March, that seven-shooting self-cocking donkey of
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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I tell you, March, that seven-shooting self-cocking donkey of a
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878
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I tell you, March, that seven-shooting self-cocking donkey of a
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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