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As
noun · 78% connection
A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Ball
noun · 78% connection
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Barrelled
adjective · 78% connection
Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Binocle
noun · 78% connection
A dioptric telescope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double-barre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Bore
noun · 78% connection
The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Calibrate
verb · 78% connection
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the vari…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Calibration
noun · 78% connection
The process of estimating the caliber a tube, as of a thermometer tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Calibre
noun · 78% connection
The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Calipers
n. pl. · 78% connection
An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Dag
noun · 78% connection
A large pistol formerly used.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Dodo
noun · 78% connection
A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Dram
noun · 78% connection
A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Gopher
noun · 78% connection
One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket goph…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Half
adverb · 78% connection
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Hazard
noun · 78% connection
Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Hemihedral
adjective · 78% connection
Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all; consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, as wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Jackknife
noun · 78% connection
A large, strong clasp knife for the pocket; a pocket knife.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: short-barreled, pocket, pistol, large, caliber.
