snubby

noun

1. A revolver with a barrel length of 3 inches (76.2 mm) or less.

   “Accessories for this version of the SP101 are not as diverse as those available for the five-shot snubby, but excellent add-ons are available.”

adj

1. Short, stumpy.

   “Both have mottled legs, Both have snubby noses, Both have—Here the host Kindly interposes:”

   “Well, for more than five years that was me—an alert young chap with a round, pink, snubby kind of face and butter-coloured hair […]”

   “Armed with snubby flintlock and limber blade, Weaver does his crime busting in London during the second decade of the 18th century.”

   “There was not much of it: the wheelbase was only ninety inches and the track precisely half of that, with a little cast-iron side-valve engine of 918cm² cowering in the depths beneath the snubby bonnet.”