short-barrelled

(Power levels are somewhat less for this cartridge in short-barrelled handguns than in rifles.)

Is the Ithaca Deerslayer still a good slug gun? 2006

Quite a short -- I believe AK-47 type, short-barrelled AK-47 type weapon, the same type of weapon that Osama bin Laden has behind him in video messages he delivers.

CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2005 2005

He extinguished the cigarette on his sole and field stripped it inside the jacket pocket where he kept his backup, a short-barrelled. 22 -- thinking, the. 22, less noise, so maybe better to use than the. 38?

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

He extinguished the cigarette on his sole and field stripped it inside the jacket pocket where he kept his backup, a short-barrelled. 22 -- thinking, the. 22, less noise, so maybe better to use than the. 38?

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Dragoons were supposed to be mounted infantry and so they were issued with carbines, short-barrelled muskets, with which they could fight on foot, and some carried the carbines while others preferred to attack with their long straight swords, but all of them instinctively ran toward the track which climbed among the vines.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

They were short-barrelled and wide-mouthed, capable of belching a terrible onslaught of musket and cannon balls at an enemy's deck.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

The muzzles of their short-barrelled rifles kept staring at him.

Whispers Of Betrayal Dobbs, Michael, 1948- 2000

Unlike the big military Webleys, which came open on a top-break hinge for reloading and were massive in size, the little RIC Webley was a solid-frame double-action that loaded like the American single-action Army revolver through a gate in the side, and came in a short-barrelled, concealable version popular with many time tourists heading to London.

Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

Smaller guns, twelve-pounders and short-barrelled howitzers, joined the bombardment of the ramparts and their shells and round shot seared above the ground where yard by yard the red earth was broken until, at last, the big short-range breaching batteries were dug and the rest of the massive siege guns were rolled forward in the night and concealed in their gun pits.

Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997

The French fired common shell, iron balls filled with a fused powder charge that cracked apart in a burst of smoke to shatter the casing on the plateau's skyline, while short-barrelled howitzers lobbed shells into the broken streets of Fuentes de Onoro to fill the village with the stench of burned powder and the rattle of exploded iron.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995