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Derringer U.S.|ˈdɛrɪndʒə(r)|
Also Deringer.
[from the surname of the inventor, Henry Deringer (1786–1868), a gunsmith in U.S.]
A small pistol with large bore, very effective at short range. Also attrib.
1853G. D. Brewerton Overland with Kit Carson (1930) 188 A preventive to interference..in the shape of Bowie knives, ‘Derringers’, and ‘six-shooters’. 1854J. R. Bartlett Personal Narr. Explor. Texas I. iii. 48 My carriage driver carried a pair of Deringer pistols. 1856B. Harte Poems, Dow's Flat, With a shovel and pick on his shoulder, and a derringer hid in his breast. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly Prol., To have both bowie and Derringer ready to hand. 1890Century Mag. Jan. 435/1 A large derringer bullet had entered the back of the head [of Pres. Lincoln].
fig.1890Daily News 4 Dec. 5/2 Tiny tomes, literary derringers for the waistcoat pocket. |