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thirty-eight

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thir·ty-eight (thûrt-t)
n.
A .38-caliber revolver.
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Adj.1.thirty-eight - being eight more than thirtythirty-eight - being eight more than thirty        
cardinal - being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"


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Gilbert, too, was in full chase after a scholarship, but found plenty of time for frequent calls at Thirty-eight, St.
The room above it, in which the Baron had slept, took its place on the hotel-register as Number Thirty-Eight.
But most astonishing was the quantity of ammunition-cartridges for Lee-Metfords, for Winchesters and Marlins, for revolvers from thirty-two calibre to forty-five, shot- gun cartridges, Joan's two boxes of thirty-eight, cartridges of prodigious bore for the ancient Sniders of Malaita, flasks of black powder, sticks of dynamite, yards of fuse, and boxes of detonators.
 
 
 
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