Word Meanings - SEVENSHOOTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A firearm, esp. a pistol, with seven barrels or chambers for cartridges, or one capable of firing seven shots without reloading. [Colloq.]

• Firmness
  The state or quality of being firm.
• Pistolade
  A pistol shot.
• Seventy
  Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
• FIRMERCHISEL
  A chisel, thin in proportion to its width. It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it. Knight.
• Firebare
  A beacon.
• Fireless
  Destitute of fire.
• Firework
  A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feat
• Fireworm
  The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
• Pistole
  The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about .90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about
• Seventies
  of Seventy
• FIRSTCLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers wh
• Fire beetle
  A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
• Firelock
  An old form of gunlock, as the flintlock, which ignites the priming by a spark; perhaps originally, a matchlock. Hence, a gun having such a lock.
• Firring
  See Furring.
• Pistoleer
  One who uses a pistol.
• Seventy-four
  A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
• FIRSTHAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• Capable
  Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault.

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