Weapons

brilliant pebble
a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles
 
creese
a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
 
matchlock
an early style of musket; a slow-burning wick would be lowered into a hole in the breech to ignite the charge
 
Cupid's bow
a curved bow with reversed curve ends
 
partisan
a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
 
BB gun
an air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air
 
submachine gun
machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm
 
backsword
a sword with only one cutting edge
 
musket ball
a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
 
Spandau
a German machine gun
 
boomerang
a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
 
Quaker gun
a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood
 
Verey pistol
a pistol for firing Very-light flares
 
small-arm
a portable gun
 
staphylococcal enterotoxin B
a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
 
Luger
a German semiautomatic pistol
 
sabre
a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
 
spitball
a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
 
halberd
a pike fitted with an ax head
 
Thompson submachine gun
a .45-caliber submachine gun
 
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