Weapons

scimitar
a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade
 
six-gun
a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
 
set gun
a gun that is set to fire on any intruder that comes in contact with the wire that sets it off
 
peacekeeper
the pistol of a law officer in the old West
 
handbow
a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow
 
trench knife
a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting
 
staphylococcal enterotoxin B
a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
 
dagger
a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
 
twenty-two rifle
a .22-caliber rifle
 
MANPAD
a man-portable surface-to-air missile
 
BB gun
an air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air
 
cannon
heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
 
Quaker gun
a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
 
Dragunov
a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight
 
rifle ball
a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
 
crossbow
a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel)
 
poison gas
a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare
 
light arm
a rifle or pistol
 
grapeshot
a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot
 
whaling gun
a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
 
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