Flobert rifle

a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

See also: Flobert

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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A 15-year-old is being treated at a private clinic in Nicosia, it emerged on Tuesday, after he was injured the day before while playing with his father's flobert rifle, which fell to the ground and went off.
You spoke of a reader's Flobert rifle built on the Warnant system.
Commence by directing your browser to "Flobert Rifle." You will soon see it should be referred to as a Parlor Gun existing for little more that in-home target games.
During a search, they found the men had a Flobert rifle with a silencer and two buckets containing 29 freshly killed wood pigeons and a thrush.
De Haas said of the Flobert, "For the many years that I have been living in the world of guns I have seldom if ever heard anything complementary said about a Flobert rifle or pistol and I imagine this has been more or less true since the first Flobert gun was made." Strong words and I do not disagree with them.
Three more mobiles, two So Easy packages, one black helmet, a Flobert rifle, nine cartridges and a computer connected to a closed circuit monitoring system were also taken from Gregoriou's house.
The plan includes legalisation of selective hunting of blackcaps -- ambelopoulia -- with air guns, flobert rifles and slingshots.