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Firearm  n.  A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.





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"Firearm" Quotes from Famous Books



... only a means to an end, and that the hostile Cavalry once disposed of by means of horse and cold steel alone, a brilliant role lies open to that Arm by reason of their possession of an efficient firearm, in the use of which the cavalryman has received ...
— Cavalry in Future Wars • Frederick von Bernhardi
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... but she was too far off to be made out. She passed and disappeared; but about the moment he lost sight of her, he thought he heard the report of a musket, or some other firearm, to the northward of the ship. He listened with all his ears, and then distinguished very faintly shouts from human voices. He waited only long enough to satisfy himself that he had not mistaken the roar of the sea for calls for help, and then ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
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... to allude to the assay of a firearm, and to mean 'burst on the trial.' Note 'assaid' two ...
— The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 • George MacDonald
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... beloved subject of speculation, which now included also the problem, "Suppose elephants were to take to being hatched from eggs, would not the shell of such eggs be of a thickness proof against cannonballs, and necessitate the invention of some new type of firearm?" Thus at the end of this little story we have these two denizens of a peaceful corner of Russia looking thence, as from a window, in less terror of doing what was scandalous than of having it SAID of them that they ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
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Words linked to "Firearm" :   muzzle loader, twenty-two, scattergun, repeating firearm, pistol, shotgun, smoothbore, autoloader, handgun, gun, self-loader, sights, piece, small-arm


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