deringer
/ˈdɛrɪndʒər/
noun
- A small, short-barreled pocket pistol, often with two barrels, popular in the 19th century.
- The collector showed us an antique deringer that once belonged to a famous outlaw.
- In old Western movies, the gambler kept a deringer hidden in his coat sleeve.
- She found a tiny deringer among her grandfather's belongings from the 1800s.