- Gun - Handgun - Private eye lost new handgun - Short firearm - Small firearm - Small weapon - The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one
hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names.
See Illust. of Revolver.
- Slug - A small ball. - A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form,
to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm. - A cannon ball. - The fetlock of a horse.