pepperbox in a sentence
Examples
- The school newspaper " The Pepperbox " was also a Boise High School publication during the early 20th century.
- The "'Pepperbox Wilderness Area "', an Adirondack Park unit of the New York Herkimer County.
- Her recording studio, Pepperbox Studio, is solar, wind and generator powered and fully off-the-grid.
- The Swedish five-barrel Feilitzenre pistol is the only pepperbox that was ever taken into consideration for use by an army.
- This may represent simple design evolution, as the double action pepperbox'pocket pistols'were very popular in the market.
- Therefore, a ring of ventilation shafts was put around the barrel which channeled the exhaust and gave the weapon something of a pepperbox appearance.
- Examples of these early weapons are the English Budding ( probably the first English percussion pepperbox ), the Swedish Engholm and the American threebarrel Manhattan pistol.
- The flaw with the pepperbox is that it becomes more front-heavy if the length and number of barrels is increased, making accurate aiming difficult.
- The pepperbox should also not be confused with or seen as a development of the Gatling gun, which fires rapidly by the use of rotating multiple barrels.
- The lineage of the pepperbox is clear in the cylinder design, grip design, standard-style trigger, and patented bar hammer double-action design.