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(ordnance) A method of fire in some revolvers and shoulder arms in which the hammer must be cocked by hand, in contrast to double action in which a single pull of the trigger both cocks and fires the weapon.
adj. (of a gun) needing to be cocked by hand before it can be fired.
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