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"ref": "2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36",
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"ref": "1969, George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman, page 45",
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"(slang, dated) A pistol."
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