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Case shot
Matched in: Term Case shot
Colt pistol
pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case and reloads ready for another shot Called also Browning pistol Colt Browning pistol automatic pistol and automatic
Duel
Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused. In modern times a duel is a combat with … unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted
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