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Definition of Gun trigger

1. Noun. Lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gun Trigger

Literary usage of Gun trigger

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

1. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1815)
"The stamper when it falls draws the gun trigger, and also the bolt which is fixed on the front of the box. A trigger wire is attached to the blunderbuss, ..."

2. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by The Review of reviews (1918)
"The ballista was a huge beam or plank set in a heavy platform, and it worked on the principle of a modern gun-trigger. To "set" it, it was hauled backward ..."

3. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by Julius Washington Muller (1918)
"The ballista was a huge beam or plank set in a heavy platform, and it worked on the principle of a modern gun-trigger. To "set" it, it was hauled backward ..."

4. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"To be out of joint, used of the limbs, etc., or of a gun trigger ; sprained ; fig. to have everything about one's person got up in the best possible manner. ..."

5. The American Amateur Photographer (1899)
"... an'ia shutter mechanism operated by the gun trigger is carried by the camera and gun stock. RS ATWATER, Western Springs, 111. Shutter. No. ..."

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