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pea rifle

noun

  1. a small rifle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It was not until he had left and returned again with a pea-rifle and a violin that Frederick recognised the brave private, Bulke.

Britch-loaders hadn't been in so durn long, and men didn't go huntin' grizzlies with the little old pea rifle just for fun.

He had a good pea-rifle, and one afternoon he started to teach Mary to shoot at a target.

They are, however, now seldom used except for rook-shooting; and even there the pea-rifle has almost entirely superseded them.

But nobody comes up to my slaying of an elephant in Assam with a pea rifle.

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