| 词汇 | derringer |
| 词源 | derringer. This is the small but deadly large-bored gun that in real life has been the choice of a large variety of villains, including assassin John Wilkes Booth. The pistol is named for Philadelphia gunsmith Henry Deringer, who invented it in 1835. Posterity cheated Deringer a bit, though, for the stubby gun came to be spelled with a double r. |
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