Weapons

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

 

Colt

a kind of revolver

 

breechloader

a gun that is loaded at the breech

 

broadsword

a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab

 

brilliant pebble

a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles

 

clean bomb

an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination

 

Uzi

a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel

 

ballistic missile

a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target

 

foil

a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

 

slug

a projectile that is fired from a gun

 

ICBM

a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another

 

twenty-two rifle

a .22-caliber rifle

 

paintball gun

an air gun used in the game of paintball; designed to simulate a semiautomatic

 

pepper spray

a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum; used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker; also used as a bear deterrent

 

falchion

a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point

 

space probe

a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation

 

claymore

a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders

 

round shot

a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon

 

Verey pistol

a pistol for firing Very-light flares

 

quarrel

an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges