Weapons

botulinus toxin

potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon

 

yataghan

a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge

 

partizan

a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

 

culverin

a medieval musket

 

MANPAD

a man-portable surface-to-air missile

 

semiautomatic

a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously

 

fusil

a light flintlock musket

 

ballistic missile

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

 

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

 

A-bomb

a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)

 

twenty-two pistol

a .22-caliber pistol

 

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

 

Bren gun

a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the British in World War II

 

peacekeeper

the pistol of a law officer in the old West

 

Kalashnikov

a type of submachine gun made in Russia

 

foil

a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button

 

paintball gun

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

 

sniper rifle

an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away

 

machine pistol

a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun

 

vouge

a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century