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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