Brewer's: Shooting-iron

(A). A gun.

“Catch old Stripes [a tiger] coming near my bullock, if he thought a `shooting-iron' anywhere about,” —Cornhill, July, 1883 (My Tiger Watch).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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