Definition of Deringers

1. deringer [n] - See also: deringer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deringers

derhotacization
deride
derided
derider
deriders
derides
deriding
deridingly
derig
derigged
derigging
derigs
derilict
dering
deringer
deringers (current term)
derisible
derision
derisions
derisive
derisively
derisiveness
derisivenesses
derisk
derisked
derisking
derisorily
derisory
derivability
derivable

Literary usage of Deringers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1889)
"It ain't to be settled by law-papers, nor shot-guns and deringers. It's suthin' to be chawed over sociable-like, between drinks. Ef any harm hez bin done, ..."

2. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller (1874)
"... steel across a table, or with little bull-dog deringers around a corner. Sometimes they have a six-shooter war dance in the streets, ..."

3. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller (1874)
"They settled their suits with steel across a table, or with little bull-dog deringers around a corner. Sometimes they have a six-shooter war dance in the ..."

4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881)
"... among the car-full—though no doubt, to make up for this deficiency, there was a liberal assortment of deadly weapons, deringers and six-shooters, ..."

5. Chronicles of the Great Rebellion: From the Beginning of the Same Until the by Allen M. Scott (1864)
"Some of the baser sort wore brass knuckles ; others carried repeaters or deringers. Murders were committed, and assaults were made, and men's hearts failed ..."

6. A History of the New California: Its Resources and People by Leigh Hadley Irvine (1905)
"He was known by his intimate friends to be a dangerous man as a foe, and he always went armed with a pair of deringers. The Thursday night prior to the ..."

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