Weapons
- Maxim gun
- an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel
- pellet
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- fire ship
- a weapon consisting of a ship carrying explosives that is set adrift to destroy enemy ships
- pike
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- firelock
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
- arrow
- a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow
- semiautomatic firearm
- an autoloader that fires only one shot at each pull of the trigger
- handbow
- a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow
- air gun
- a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air
- atomic weapon
- a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction
- backsword
- a sword with only one cutting edge
- rifle ball
- a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
- high explosive
- a powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate
- spitball
- a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
- air-to-ground missile
- a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground
- firearm
- a portable gun
- ABM
- a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
- automatic
- a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released
- derringer
- a pocket pistol of large caliber with a short barrel
- rod
- a gangster's pistol
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