| 词汇 | widow and orphan makers |
| 词源 | widow and orphan makers. A name given to the famed Pennsylvania rifles that American backwoodsmen used in the Battle of New Orleans (1815) in the War of 1812. The accurate rifle and these sharpshooters were a lethal combination. |
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