horse pistol
English
Noun
horse pistol (plural horse pistols)
- A type of large pistol carried on the pommel of a saddle while riding.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, I:
- Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horse-pistols: and, by way of ornament, three gaudily-painted cainsters disposed along its ledge.
- 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 559:
- From time to time he pulled the trigger of the horse-pistol; from time to time he rested the butt on his ledge and rammed a charge home.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, I:
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- strophioles