/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Shooting-iron (A)
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A gun.
“Catch old Stripes [a tiger] coming near my bullock, if he thought a ‘shooting-ironʹ anywhere about.”—Cornhill, July, 1883 (My Tiger Watch).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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