Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Weapons and Ammunition (hierarchy name)
5. weapons
6. armaments
7. projectile weapons
8. [projectile weapons with explosive propellant]
9. firearms
10. small arms
11. [small arms by form]
12. handguns (small arms)
13. pistols
14. [pistols by form]
15. pocket pistols

Narrower term/s

• deringers

Anotations

Scope note:

Small single-shot muzzleloading percussion pocket pistols of large bore, first made by the Philadelphia gunsmith Henry Deringer in the 1840s and subsequently widely copied throughout the United States. Specifically for those actually made by Henry Deringer himself, use "deringers."