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(transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
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(Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
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A type of pellet that can be shot from a BB gun.
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(science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
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A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
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(firearms) A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber another cartridge, and cock the hammer.
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(science fiction) A mechanical crossbow used by Alliance Special Forces infiltration units in Star Wars.
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The action of placing and detonating bombs.
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(US military slang, dated) A laxative.
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Large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.
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Alternative spelling of cease-fire [In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).]
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Alternative spelling of cease-fire [In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).]
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(military) A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
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(US) The situation where one police officer firing a weapon induces others to fire as well.
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(military) supporting fire; small-arms fire directed at an enemy to prevent them firing elsewhere.
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(colloquial) The destruction of dams by dropping bombs on them from aircraft.
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An aimable high-capacity water jet used in firefighting and fire protection systems.
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(firearms) to remove the (remnant) primer from a cartridge casing (from the brass).
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Alternative form of dry fire [(firearms) To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber.]
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(military, nautical) A device to trigger explosions in torpedoes.
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A type of shaped charge with a shallow depression instead of a deep cone on the attacking face, allowing the metal plate to be explosively formed into a high velocity projectile that can penetrate armour at stand-off distances, greater than that of the hypervelocity plasma from the deeply coned form of shaped charge munitions.
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(idiomatic) To respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (e.g. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).
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(idiomatic) To deal with urgent matters and minor emergencies rather than longer-term work.
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(colloquial) A firefighter.
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(countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
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(military, historical) A metal dart or arrow furnished with a combustible such as gunpowder for setting fire to ships.
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Alternative form of fireblast [A fiery explosion.]
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A water-soaked swab for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
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Alternative form of firebreather [A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.]
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(figuratively) A quarrelsome or belligerent person.
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Alternative form of firefight [A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.]
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(dated) Alternative form of firepower [The capacity of a weapon to deliver fire onto a target.]
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One who carries out a firebombing attack.
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Alternative form of fire-eater [A performer who pretends to swallow fire.]
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A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
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Alternative form of fire trench [(military) A deep trench from which one can fire on the enemy.]
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(military, historical) A person in charge of the operation of a gun.
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(transitive, military and video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.
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(military) Gunfire approximately parallel to the ground and where the centre of the cone of fire does not rise above one metre from the ground.
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(usually in the plural) The fittings of a gun that is used by the military.
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(figuratively) To wait or hold back.
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(transitive, military, slang) To bombard with napalm.
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Alternative form of parafrag [(military) A kind of small bomb dropped with a parachute, and pre-scored to break into one-inch pieces.]
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(military) A kind of small bomb dropped with a parachute, and pre-scored to break into one-inch pieces.
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Clipping of penetration aid. [(military) Any device or tactic used to increase an ICBM warhead's chances of penetrating a target's defenses.]
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(now rare, archaic) To attack or blow a hole in (something) with a petard.
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Aimed from higher ground, as fire upon an enemy.
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(video game slang) A proximity mine; a mine that explodes when something approaches within a certain distance.
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A button, lever, or other device in a building used to set off the fire alarm when manually pulled, pushed or otherwise activated.
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Device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.
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Alternative form of smoke blower (any sense). [Device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.]
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Alternative form of smoke blower (any sense) [Device to clear a gun turret on a naval ship of the smoke and gasses from discharging the gun.]
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(US, military, euphemistic) napalm
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Alternative form of spitfire [A cannon.]
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Alternative form of spitfire [A cannon.]
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Alternative form of splatter-gun [A shotgun, assault weapon, or other gun that repeatedly fires quickly and in an imprecise fashion.]
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To receive the fire of arms from an enemy without giving way.
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Alternative form of static fire [(astronautics) To perform a static fire test.]
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(firearms) A type of malfunction affecting breechloading firearms, where a spent cartridge casing fails to eject completely, instead becoming stuck in the firearm's ejection port, usually oriented vertically or nearly so.
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A powerful water pistol that uses manually pressurized air to propel the water.
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(rare) A very severe bombardment.
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Alternative form of testfire [(transitive) To subject to a test firing.]
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(transitive, ceramics) To fire at a low (or excessively low) temperature.
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(obsolete, architecture) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
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(dated) A small artillery shell
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(military, slang) white phosphorus
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(medicine, dated) A contusion caused by a projectile that does not enter the skin, due to either compressed air or a glancing blow
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(military, slang) A boat, tank, etc. equipped with flamethrowers.
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