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Shooting iron

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A firearm, especially a handgun. US, colloquial, dated

    ""It ain't the rifle, Harry," Sam said good-temperedly; "it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron.""

  2. 2
    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand wordnet

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