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Definition of .38 caliber
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the bore of a gun (or its ammunition) that measures thirty-eight hundredths of an inch in diameter. "A .38 caliber shell"
Lexicographical Neighbors of .38 Caliber
Literary usage of .38 caliber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the District of by District of Columbia Supreme Court, Charles Cowles Tucker, Walter Collins Clephane (1895)
"... one a 32-caliber, which he had bought from one Walford, and which he shortly
afterwards exchanged with him for a 38-caliber. He was asked whether he had ..."
2. Ordnance and Gunnery: A Text-book Prepared for the Cadets of the United by Ormond Mitchell Lissak (1907)
"Service Small Arms.—The present service small arms are the .38 caliber revolver,
... The .38 caliber Revolver.—The service revolver is made by the Colt's ..."
3. Handbook of Forensic Science by Maria Josefi (1994)
"Some examples are: Descriptive words: Cartridges in the .38 caliber family would
include the .38 Smith & Wesson, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"... the defendant tendered in evidence a license from the ordinary of his home
county authorizing the defendant to carry a 38- caliber S. & W. pistol, ..."
5. American law reports annotated Law reports, digests, et (1919)
"... and was then claimed by Duncan as his pistol, that it was a 38- caliber pistol,
but carried a ball different from the 38-caliber ball of Smith & Wesson ..."
6. Pistol and Revolver Shooting by Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright (1915)
"A first-class weapon for police service is the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson safety
hammerless, the .38-caliber or .32- caliber Colt Police ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1905)
"Shortly l>efore admission he was shot in the back, his assailant using a 38-
caliber revolver, at a distance of about thirty feet. ..."
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