revolver

revolver
/ri vol"veuhr/, n.
1. a handgun having a revolving chambered cylinder for holding a number of cartridges, which may be discharged in succession without reloading.
2. a person or thing that revolves.
[1825-35, Amer.; REVOLVE + -ER1]

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Pistol with a revolving cylinder that provides multishot action.

Some early versions, known as pepperboxes, had several barrels, but as early as the 17th century pistols were being made with a revolving chamber to load cartridges into a single barrel. The first practical revolver was not designed until 1835, when Samuel Colt patented his version. He established the standard of a cylinder with multiple chambers, each of which successively locked in position behind the barrel and was discharged by pressure on the trigger. In Colt's early single-action revolvers, the cylinder revolved as the hammer was cocked manually. Double-action revolvers, in which the hammer is cocked and the cylinder revolves as the trigger is pulled, were developed soon afterward, along with metal cartridges.

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weapon
  pistol (q.v.) whose multi-shot action depends on a revolving cylinder. Some early versions, known as “pepperboxes,” had several barrels, but as early as the 17th century pistols were manufactured with a revolving chamber to load the cartridges successively into a single barrel. The principle was not used successfully to produce a practical weapon until 1835–36, when Samuel Colt (Colt, Samuel) patented his version.

      As in all subsequent revolvers, Colt's cylinder contained several bored ammunition chambers, equidistant from each other and from the axis about which the cylinder revolved. Each chamber successively locked in position behind the barrel and discharged by pressure on the trigger. Colt's early revolvers were single-action, in which the cylinder revolved as the hammer was cocked manually, and they used percussion caps. Double-action revolvers, in which the hammer is cocked and the cylinder revolves as the trigger is pulled, were developed in the mid-1800s, along with metal cartridges. Despite the slight escape of propellant gas through the junction between the cylinder and the barrel, the revolver has remained a competitor of the automatic pistol.

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