Pepperbox

Word PEPPERBOX
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Definitions and meanings of "Pepperbox"

What do we mean by pepperbox?

A peppershaker noun

A peppershaker.

A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.

A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.

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The word "pepperbox" in example sentences

Reader comment: Nial McGaughey sez, the device looks like a simple "pepperbox" type derringer. 4 chambers 4 firing pins, 4 barrells. anyone looking at the top of the phone could tell something is amiss, there will be 4 big holes in the top of the phone, and the antenna will be hollow. not to mention the thing looks like ronco made it for sale to the after 3AM TV watching set. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The eight-cell "pepperbox" ASROC launcher was being serviced by shoreside technicians to correct a minor mechanical glitch. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1986)

The engine is an eager little pepperbox, a 1.4-liter, 101-horsepower in-line four-cylinder, mated to a five-speed manual transmission a six-speed automatic is coming later this year. ❋ Dan Neil (2011)

This was a multi-barreled repeating shotgun that was basically an updated pepperbox design. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"A pepperbox, four twenty-two caliber hollow-points." ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Tell me, Case," Riviera said, raising the pepperbox muzzle of the fletcher. ❋ Boudreau Freret (2010)

With all the features of a seaside pier, it was once a toll bridge between Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, with the red pepperbox toll house on the Bucks embankment. ❋ Peter Ashley (2007)

There wasn't time to get my pepperbox; they'd be at the door in a second - there was nothing for it but to slip through the screen to the balcony, shuddering back against the balustrade even as I heard the door flung open and men bursting in. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

I count it from the moment we set out south, the six of us in column of twos, gorracharra to the life in our oddments of mail and plate and eccentric weapons; Gardner had furnished me with two pistols and a sabre, and while I'd have swapped the lot for my old pepperbox, I consoled myself that with luck I'd never need to use them. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

The little boy who'd exulted over my pepperbox and ridden laughing to Jupindar rocks would live out a wastrel life in exile, and Mai Jeendan, the dancing queen and Mother of all Sikhs, her appetite undiminished and her beauty undimmed, would pass away, of all places, in England. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

Here he was, not two chamberpots high, lifted in disguise from his mother's palace, fired on and pursued through the dark and cold, left in the hands of a ruffian of whom he could have heard nothing but evil - and all that concerned him was the promised pepperbox. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

I showed him, and would you believe it, he fell into whispered admiration of my pepperbox? ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

Without a word she led on up the alley, and I followed close, my heart thumping and my hand on the pepperbox under my poshteen as I scanned the shadows ahead. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

So I let him lead on under the great arch, past the spearmen standing guard in their mail coats and helms; my puggaree, like my sword and pepperbox, had gone during the evening's activities, but one of the riders had lent me a cloak with a hood, which I kept close about my face; no one gave us a second glance. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

Being a pagan (attached C of E) with no divine resources, I shall tread uncommon wary and keep my pepperbox handy. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

Since Flashman refers later in the manuscript to a Cooper pepperbox, it is probable that the pistol he drew on Dalip Singh was a Cooper also. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

I had my pepperbox, but I bought a belt and a Kashmiri short sword in the market for added security, and to test my appearance and elocution. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (1990)

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