Weapons
- partizan
- a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
- Saturday night special
- a cheap handgun that is easily obtained
- six-shooter
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
- fowling piece
- a light shotgun used for fowling
- full metal jacket
- a lead bullet that is covered with a jacket of a harder metal (usually copper)
- dagger
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- whaling gun
- a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
- brilliant pebble
- a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles
- Minuteman
- a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
- sawed-off shotgun
- a shotgun with short barrels
- BB gun
- an air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air
- GA
- the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare
- shiv
- a knife used as a weapon
- clostridium perfringens
- anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon
- Browning automatic rifle
- a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
- staphylococcal enterotoxin B
- a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
- longbow
- a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England
- rifle ball
- a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
- duck shot
- small lead shot for shotgun shells
- hatchet
- weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
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