Weapons
- tear gas
- a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds
- sabre
- a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle
- blunderbuss
- a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
- butt shaft
- a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice
- minute gun
- (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)
- kirpan
- a ceremonial four-inch curved dagger that Sikh men and women are obliged to wear at all times
- gat
- a gangster's pistol
- fire ship
- a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships
- cutlass
- a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors
- megaton bomb
- a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT
- dirk
- a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
- round shot
- a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon
- nuclear weapon
- a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction
- flack
- artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
- Browning machine gun
- a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
- whaling gun
- a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
- breechloader
- a gun that is loaded at the breech
- paintball gun
- an air gun used in the game of paintball; designed to simulate a semiautomatic
- airgun
- a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
- rifle
- a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
List More