"six-shooter" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 10",
          "text": "He drank a quart of whisky a day; was almost never drunk, but on rare occasions when the liquor fumes bested him he would invariably select a hapless victim and, whipping out the pair of mother-o’-pearl-handled six-shooters he always wore at his belt, would force him to dance by shooting at his feet—a pleasing fancy brought with him from Texas and the Cimarron.",
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          "text": "Five or six of them youngsters, weren’t but two of them upwards of twelve or thirteen, they outs with their six-shooters and had me covered.",
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        "A revolver which holds six cartridges."
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        "(colloquial, dated) A revolver which holds six cartridges."
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  "word": "six-shooter"
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