A revolver with six chambers.

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1854.  Look a-here, Kurnel, you can sock along arter that b’ar jist as long as you ’ve a mind tu, and here ’s my six-shooter, but you can’t toll me up thar, nohow!—Knick. Mag., xliii. 643 (June).

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1855.  I regard Col. Colt’s six-shooter as the most formidable fire-arm that can be placed in the hands of men engaged in close quarters.—Mr. Lane of Oregon, House of Representatives, Feb. 3: Cong. Globe, p. 555.

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1855.  

        I’ve plenty more of arguments
  To which I can resort, sir—
Six-shooters, rifles, bowie-knives,
  Will indicate the sort, sir.
Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 445 (1860).    

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1856.  A bouquet-holder very wonderful to behold, since it was built on the principle of a silver six-shooter, opening with a snap, and sometimes pinching the fingers like all poverty.—Knick. Mag., xlviii. 405 (Oct.).

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1876.  A negro, whose knowledge of the country notably expanded at sight of a six-shooter.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ ii. 275 (Richmond, Va.).

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1888.  Fred agreeing to keep a sharp lookout and give the alarm by firing his six-shooter.—W. B. Mershon, ‘Forest and Stream,’ March 15 (Farmer).

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