Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Two-pipe scattergun
subs. phr. (American).—A double-barrelled rifle.
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1884. PHILLLPPS-WOLLEY, Trottings of a Tenderfoot, ch. ix. ‘Oh, durn your rifles!’ said an old settler to me. ‘Give me a TWO-PIPE SCATTER-GUN and a spike-tailed smell-dawg, and I’m fixed.’
