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Silencer   Listen
noun
Silencer  n.  One that silences; specif.:
(a)
The muffler of an internal-combustion engine.
(b)
Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires.
(c)
A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.






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"Silencer" Quotes from Famous Books



... black mackintosh stepped out. He bent over the dead man, picked up the fallen torch and flashed the light on the dead man's face, then, with a grunt of satisfaction, Raoul Pontarlier unscrewed his Soubet silencer and slipped his automatic into the ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... 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

... by the uproar that its own activities have brought about, will welcome the soft pedal that Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the gun silencer, is preparing to put on the hubbub in which every great urban community has ...
— Owen Clancy's Happy Trail - or, The Motor Wizard in California • Burt L. Standish

... motor-car went past, and then the laurel bushes by the side of the steps moved, and a man in a black mackintosh stepped out. He bent over the dead man, picked up the fallen torch and flashed the light on the dead man's face, then, with a grunt of satisfaction, Raoul Pontarlier unscrewed his Soubet silencer and slipped his automatic into the wet ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... Japanese exclusion, Hindu exclusion suddenly became party shibboleths—always for the party out of power, never for the party in power. The party in power kept a special Maxim silencer on the subject of Oriental immigration. The politician in office kept one finger on his lip and wore rubber-soled shoes whenever an almond-eyed was mentioned. With that beautiful consistency which only a politician ...
— The Canadian Commonwealth • Agnes C. Laut



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