pepperbox

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pepperbox englanniksi

  1. A shaker.

  2. A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.

  3. (RQ:Gibson Neuromancer)

  4. A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.

  5. A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.

  6. {{quote-text|en|year=1861|author=Elizabeth Gaskell|title=The Grey Woman

  7. Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.

  8. {{quote-text|en|year=1887|author=Charles Mackay|title=Through the Long Day: Or, Memorials of a Literary Life|page=113

  9. {{quote-text|en|year=2012|author=Edward Verrall Lucas|title=Highways and Byways in London