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Silencer

noun
1.
Short tube attached to the muzzle of a gun that deadens the sound of firing.
2.
A tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise.  Synonym: muffler.





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"Silencer" Quotes from Famous Books



... this moment armed with a search-warrant and is ransacking every possible place where the person suspected of this crime could have concealed his weapon. For, one of the persons intimately connected with this case purchased not long ago a silencer for a thirty-two-calibre revolver, and I presume that that person carried the gun and the silencer at the time of the murder of ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds


Words linked to "Silencer" :   exhaust system, acoustic device, exhaust, silence, tubing, tube


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