Weapons
- self-loader
- a firearm that reloads itself
- Maxim gun
- an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel
- six-gun
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
- Exocet
- a guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships
- musket
- a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
- crossbow
- a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel)
- panga
- a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
- sticker
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- slasher
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- GB
- a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
- 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
- culverin
- a medieval musket
- cannonball
- a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon
- javelin
- a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events
- shiv
- a knife used as a weapon
- poison gas
- a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact; used in chemical warfare
- butt shaft
- a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice
- stiletto
- a small dagger with a tapered blade
- saber
- a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
- Bofors gun
- an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
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