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Seven-shooter   Listen
noun
Seven-shooter  n.  A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Seven-shooter" Quotes from Famous Books



... the excitement of the chase, I had ridden on like an Indian, as Hassard said in his letter, whooping like one all alone after the buffalo, and in my joy forgot to shake the spent cartridge out of my Spenser seven-shooter carbine. All at once I found myself right in the herd, close by a monstrous bull, whose height at the instant when he turned on me to gore me seemed to be about a hundred and fifty feet. But my horse ...
— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland



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