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Abacus
noun · 78% connection
A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ammunition
noun · 78% connection
Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Artillery
noun · 78% connection
Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Bagatelle
noun · 78% connection
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ball
verb · 78% connection
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ballet
noun · 78% connection
A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ballock
noun · 78% connection
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ballot
noun · 78% connection
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ballproof
adjective · 78% connection
Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Ballroom
noun · 78% connection
A room for balls or dancing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Bayonet
noun · 78% connection
A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offens…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Billiards
noun · 78% connection
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Blackball
verb · 78% connection
To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Blunderbuss
noun · 78% connection
A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Bolas
n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection
A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Bollock
noun · 78% connection
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
Bullet
noun · 78% connection
A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
But
verb · 78% connection
The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: rifle, adapted, minie, balls.
