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[US] (con. mid-19C) G. Shankle Amer. Nickname 332: In Texas and other western states during frontier days, a revolver or a pistol was nicknamed One-eyed Scribe, signifying that the revolver had only one barrel with which to record its message of death.
at one-eyed scribe, n.
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