Dangerous Weapon
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A weapon calculated to cause death or great bodily harm. Guns, swords, knives, and the like, are dangerous weapons, as a matter of law.
110 N. C. 497; 1 Baldw. (U. S.) 78.
Others are dangerous or not, according to their capability of causing great bodily harm in the manner in which they are used. Thus, a champagne bottle (33 Ga. 207), a chair (3 Tex. App. 13), a club (104 N. C. 786), a stone (10 Minn. 407) or a shovel (17 S. C. 55) may be a dangerous weapon.