Firearm: alternatives and connections

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as…

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

A pistol.

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.

A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the…

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

Secure against the explosive force of bombs.

The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called al…

A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

A slight sharp noise, such as is made by the cocking of a pistol.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

A large pistol formerly used.

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an…

a visual presentation showing how something works; "the lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations"; "the lecturer shot off a…