Weapons

rapier
a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
 
trench knife
a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting
 
light arm
a rifle or pistol
 
Mauser
trademark for a repeating rifle or pistol
 
atomic weapon
a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction
 
shiv
a knife used as a weapon
 
dart
a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot
 
knife
a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
 
saber
a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
 
air-to-surface missile
a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground
 
organophosphate nerve agent
any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds
 
missile
a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled
 
cannon
heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
 
Uzi
a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel
 
bow
a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow
 
guided missile
a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices
 
Saturday night special
a cheap handgun that is easily obtained
 
twenty-two rifle
a .22-caliber rifle
 
clostridium perfringens
anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon
 
vouge
a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century
 
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