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Alternative form of arbalister [(obsolete) A crossbowman.]
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Alternative form of arbalest [A crossbow.]
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Alternative form of arbalest [A crossbow.]
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(obsolete) A crossbowman.
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Alternative form of arbalest [A crossbow.]
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(obsolete except historical) A wooden crossbow with a special drawing mechanism, used to fire bolts, stones etc.
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Alternative form of arbalister [(obsolete) A crossbowman.]
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One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.
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A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist.
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Obsolete form of arquebus.
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(obsolete, military) A light mounted soldier; a mounted bowman.
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A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.
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Alternative form of arquebus
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(military, now historical) A soldier armed with an arquebus.
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A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
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The section between the throat and shank of the mouthpiece of a brass instrument.
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Alternative form of ballista [(weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.]
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Alternative form of ballistarius [(obsolete) A crossbowman.]
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(obsolete) An arbalister or crossbowman.
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(weaponry, historical) An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
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(obsolete) A crossbowman.
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(dated, slang) A pistol.
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A ventilated covering for the barrel of a firearm that prevents accidental burns to the operators
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having the specified number of barrels
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(historical) A heavy object used for battering down walls and gates before gunpowder was known.
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Supplied with a pistol.
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(US, slang, hiphop) A handgun, especially a revolver.
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(obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
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(slang) Any shotgun, especially a sawn-off version.
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Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
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(firearms) The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
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A strong metal plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
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(obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.
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Obsolete form of bombard. [a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.]
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The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
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A metal plate that covers the trunnions of a cannon and holds it in place.
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Alternative spelling of carabineer [(obsolete) A cavalry soldier]
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Alternative form of carabineer [(obsolete) A cavalry soldier]
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A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun breech, to which a heavy rope is attached in order to control recoil.
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A device or weapon for throwing or launching large objects.
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A Roman catapult (weapon for launching projectiles).
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(historical) A gun triggered by a tripwire near a grave, intended to deter body snatchers.
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An American-made anti-personnel mine designed to lay down a wide arc of steel ball bearings in order to inflict casualties.
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(military, historical) A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two people.
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The top part of a gun’s stock.
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(archaic) A detonating cord.
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One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
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(historical) A hooked ram for destroying walls.
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(aviation) A lightweight fire axe carried in the cockpit of medium and large passenger aircraft and used to cut an escape route through aircraft wreckage after a crash, or to gain access to a hidden fire during flight.
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A bolt fired from a crossbow.
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A mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow, that shoots bolts.
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A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
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A long-barreled flintlock musket, used and generally manufactured in West Africa.
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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
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A power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.
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(now historical) A medium cannon, slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a culverin.
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(military, obsolete) One of the handles above the trunnions by which a gun was lifted.
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(historical) A small piece of artillery.
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(military) An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.
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(historical) A light cannon used from the 15th to the 17th century; a falconet.
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(military, historical) A light cannon developed in the late 15th century and decorated with an image of a falcon.
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A gun or cannon, especially a rifle. Originally used by or ascribed to members of non-European cultures or anthropomorphized animals describing firearms.
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(firearms) Part of a rifle, underneath the barrel, where it is supported by the hand.
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(military, historical) A kind of land mine; a fougasse.
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A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
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(historical, artillery) A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired.
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Alternative form of jingal [(India) A type of gun, usually a light piece mounted on a swivel, sometimes taking the form of a heavy musket fired from a rest.]
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Alternative spelling of jingal [(India) A type of gun, usually a light piece mounted on a swivel, sometimes taking the form of a heavy musket fired from a rest.]
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(firearms, obsolete) The trigger, trigger plate, its guard, and (when present) the heel plate to the stock.
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Alternative form of gunmetal. [(historical) A type of bronze used for making cannons.]
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(firearms) A long tubular cloth covering, sealed at one end, used to provide basic protection for a firearm.
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Alternative form of gunstock [The handle of a handgun.]
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(historical) A corkscrew-like device used to remove unspent charges from the barrel of a musket.
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Alternative spelling of gunstick [A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.]
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A servant who carries a hunter's gun.
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One who manufactures guns.
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(archaic, idiomatic, navy) The gun to which sailors were tied to be flogged.
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(historical) A padded shoulder on a coat designed to protect the fabric from the recoil of a rifle or shotgun.
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A rack for storing a gun.
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The rear part of a musket, rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.
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A Native American wooden club once used for war, now used ceremonially, with the appearance of the wooden stock of a European North American colonial era musket, with a metal knife blade attached to the clubbing end.
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Obsolete form of arquebus.
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Alternative form of hagbut [(obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel.]
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Obsolete form of arquebus.
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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Obsolete form of arquebus.
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(obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel.
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A soldier armed with a hagbut or arquebus.
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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(firearms) The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.
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Obsolete spelling of hagbut [(obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel.]
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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Alternative form of harquebus [An obsolete matchlock firearm.]
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Obsolete form of arquebus.
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(military, historical) A kind of graduated breech sight for a small arm or cannon.
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Someone who is an expert in weapons and armour (especially military uses or knowledge thereof).
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(military, historical) Field artillery with comparatively light guns and the gunners mounted on horses.
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(slang) A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
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Alternative form of jezail [(now chiefly historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.]
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Alternative form of jezail [(now chiefly historical) An Afghan matchlock or flintlock musket fired from a forked rest.]
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(military, naval, obsolete or historical) Langrage (scraps of metal used to fire at an enemy).
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(obsolete) A kind of loaded die.
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(historical, military) A kind of portable bronze cannon or swivel gun, sometimes mounted on merchant vessels and warships in Maritime Southeast Asia.
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(weaponry, rare) A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.
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(historical) Alternative form of linstock [(historical) A pointed forked staff, shod with iron at the foot, to hold a lighted match for firing cannon.]
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An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
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A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.
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(non-technical, often proscribed) An onager (type of catapult).
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A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed, used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armour.
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(obsolete) A type of siege engine similar to a trebuchet, designed to fling rocks over long distances.
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(historical) A short lever for training a carronade on its target.
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Obsolete form of matross. [(military, now historical) An artilleryman next in rank to a gunner; a gunner's mate, especially one who assists the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.]
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A man who operates a mortar (weapon).
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A silencer or suppressor fitted to a gun.
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(now chiefly historical) A perforated segment that fits into part of the breech of a muzzle-loading gun, on which the percussion cap is fixed.
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(firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
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Alternative form of pederero [(military, now historical) A short piece of chambered ordnance, used to fire stones in naval and siege warfare.]
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(Philippines) A crude homemade firearm, often made using scrap metal.
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(firearms) The part of a flintlock that holds the priming.
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(firearms) A lidded container fitted to a gun to hold the cloth patches used when shooting round shot.
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Obsolete form of pederero. [(military, now historical) A short piece of chambered ordnance, used to fire stones in naval and siege warfare.]
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(military, historical) One who managed a petard.
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A weapon used to hurl stones
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(historical) A kind of catapult of Ancient Greece, used for hurling stones.
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A waterjet disruptor used to disable explosive devices.
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(art, archaeology) A mortar.
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(gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.
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A non-lethal projectile made of aluminium carcase and plastic head, designed to be fired from a specialized gun, for riot control.
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A person or company that makes gunpowder.
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A device for cleaning a rifle bore.
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(firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
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A medium cannon slightly smaller than a culverin developed during the early 17th century.
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Alternative form of sarbacane [(archaic) A blowgun.]
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(historical) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
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An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
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A material used as liner in artillery rounds between the casing and propellant or bursting charge. Also used as tying for silk bags containing the propellant charge in larger guns.
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(Caribbean, Jamaica, UK, MLE) a weapon, especially a gun or a knife
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(obsolete, military) Barrier.
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(chiefly US) A Y-shaped stick with an elastic sling between the arms used for shooting small projectiles.
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A toy gun that fires a plug of potato by compressing the air in the barrel, forcing the potato projectile out at speed.
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Alternative form of staple gun [A heavy-duty device for driving staples directly into wood or other material.]
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A stone used as a projectile.
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(military) A pressed metal (or plastic) clip, holding a set number of cartridges for a firearm, and used for rapid reloading of the weapon or its magazine, and which is then removed or ejected from the weapon or magazine before firing.
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(firearms) Material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.
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(firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
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(weaponry, slang, science fiction) An orbital drop hypervelocity kinetic energy weapon (KEW). A theoretical weapon, originating from a U.S. government study, Project Thor, from the 1950s.
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Alternative spelling of thunderstick (referring to a firearm). [A gun or cannon, especially a rifle.]
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Alternative spelling of thunderstick (referring to a firearm). [A gun or cannon, especially a rifle.]
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(military, obsolete) A blunderbuss; also, a cannon.
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(firearms, historical) A steel pin in early rifles.
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(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
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(military, obsolete) A hand mortar.
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The detachable or movable fore part of a gunstock, lying beneath the barrel or barrels, and forming a hold for the left hand.
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Alternative spelling of tampion [A wooden plug, or a metal or canvas cover, for the muzzle of a gun, cannon, or other piece of ordnance when not in use; a stopper; a bung.]
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(obsolete) A Turkish musket
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(historical) An ancient engine for hurling missiles.
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A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end.
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Alternative spelling of trebuchet [A medieval siege engine consisting of a large pivoting arm heavily weighted on one end.]
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An improvised hand-held weapon used by raiding parties in World War One
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A small mortar designed to fire shells from one trench to an enemy trench.
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A thin loop surrounding the trigger of a weapon to keep it from accidental discharge.
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Alternative form of trunnion [One of the short stubby bearings on either side of a cannon; a gudgeon.]
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One of the short stubby bearings on either side of a cannon; a gudgeon.
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A raised rim forming a shoulder around the trunnion of a gun.
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A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
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A lever behind the trigger guard of a rifle
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(firearms) One of the locking lugs on a break-action firearm that extend from the bottom of the barrels under the chamber(s) and connect into the receiver bottom.
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(historical) A wrought-iron cannon, part of the artillery of France in the Middle Ages.
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A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
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Alternative form of wapinschaw [(Scotland, historical) An exhibition of weapons, according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; formerly made at certain seasons in each district.]
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(by extension) A kind of modern-day assault rifle handle in a similar shape.
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(military slang) Type 92 heavy machine gun
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A light swivelling gun, traditionally mounted on, and fired from, the back of a camel
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Alternative form of zamboorak [A light swivelling gun, traditionally mounted on, and fired from, the back of a camel]
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Rare spelling of zamburak. [A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest, especially as mounted on the back of a camel.]
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