"shooting iron" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shooting irons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "American English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies",
          "text": "\"It ain't the rifle, Harry,\" Sam said good-temperedly; \"it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxv. 183",
          "text": "Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower",
          "text": "The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A firearm, especially a handgun."
      ],
      "id": "en-shooting_iron-en-noun-0KwNDp-4",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "shooting-iron"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "dated"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ognestrelno orǎžie",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "огнестрелно оръжие"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "paukkurauta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "reikärauta"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Schießeisen"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "skjutjärn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "shooting iron"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "shooting irons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "shooting iron (plural shooting irons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies",
          "text": "\"It ain't the rifle, Harry,\" Sam said good-temperedly; \"it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxv. 183",
          "text": "Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower",
          "text": "The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A firearm, especially a handgun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "handgun",
          "handgun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "shooting-iron"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ognestrelno orǎžie",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "огнестрелно оръжие"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "paukkurauta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "reikärauta"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Schießeisen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skjutjärn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "shooting iron"
}