shooting iron

Questions about shooting iron

What does shooting iron mean?

shooting iron means "a firearm that is held and fired with one hand".

What is another word for shooting iron?

Close synonyms include pistol, handgun, side arm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shooting iron a common word?

shooting iron is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.