single-action

We're not talking hunting rifles here at all, or single-action handguns.

The legislature found time to designate an official “state firearm,” the Colt Single Action Army Revolver.

On that day it performed prodigies of valor, and achieved successes as pregnant with good results as any single action of the war.

He resolved by a single action to defeat their calculations and stamp his sincerity on the memories of his countrymen.

A light, single-action click reel of German silver or aluminum of fifty or sixty yards' capacity is the best.

On the contrary, single-action reels are made of rather numerous materials and certainly in varying degrees of desirability.

It is taken for granted in the above discussion, and also in the following, that the fly-caster uses a single-action reel.