Usually means: Antique revolver with multiple barrels.
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  1. pepperbox: Merriam-Webster
  2. pepperbox: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pepperbox: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pepperbox: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pepperbox: Wordnik
  6. pepperbox: Wiktionary
  7. pepperbox: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pepperbox: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pepperbox: Dictionary.com
  10. Pepperbox, The Pepperbox: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pepperbox: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (pepperbox)

noun:  A pepper shaker.
noun:  (firearms) A repeating firearm with three or more barrels grouped around a central axis.
noun:  A buttress at one side of the court in the game of fives.
noun:  (architecture) A tower capped by a cupola, looking similar to a giant pepper shaker.
noun:  (architecture, slang, chiefly in the plural) Any of the buildings of the Royal Academy and National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, having cupolas on the roof.

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