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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



... 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
... laboratory and he saw Smithers teetering on his feet, with his hands clasped queerly to his body, and a strange man standing in the door of the laboratory with an automatic pistol in his hand. The automatic had a silencer on it, and its clicking had been drowned out, anyhow, by the roaring of the ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... of a big pot of money, and naturally he's strong for it. But I refused his offer of a cool half-million to play the Reno circuit, and so he concluded to sue for a divorce with a revolver, a Maxim silencer, and a perfect alibi. Do ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance


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