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sawn-off

adjective

  1. prenominal (of a shotgun) having the barrel cut short, mainly to facilitate concealment of the weapon
  2. informal.
    (of a person) small in stature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Officers also found a sawn-off shotgun during a search of the property.

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At the house, police found items stolen in the robbery, including watches and wallets, along with ski masks while the sawn-off shotgun was found hidden in a nearby bush which had Harmer's DNA on.

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Responding to reports of a house fire in Rodney Drive, police and firefighters discover two AK-47s; two sawn-off shot guns; a high-powered rifle with a silencer and three pipe bombs.

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Norrie's first experience of tennis was hitting a ball on the driveway of his family home in New Zealand with a sawn-off squash racquet.

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James Holmes, of Lawnmount Crescent in Lisburn, admitted two counts of attempting to murder the couple in their Mill Street home, and of possessing the sawn-off shotgun.

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