English Dictionary

pepperbox

名詞

語釈なし 複数形 俗語

A pepper shaker. / (firearms) A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis. / A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.

日本語の意味

こしょう入れ、すなわち調味料を振りかけるための容器 / 銃身が3本以上円形に配置された回転式拳銃（火器の一種） / ファイブズというゲームにおいて、コートの一側に設けられた支柱

She reached for the pepperbox on the table and sprinkled a little over her salad.

彼女はテーブルの胡椒入れに手を伸ばし、サラダに少しふりかけた。

意味（1）

A pepper shaker.

意味（2）

(firearms) A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.

She had her knees up, resting her wrists on them; the pepperbox muzzle of a flechette pistol emerged from her hands.

意味（3）

A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.

意味（4）

(architecture); (architecture, slang, chiefly in the plural) Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.

Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.

pepperboxes （ plural ）