action
corn
muzzle-loading
lockwork
striker
gun carriage
handloading
bump stock
lever action
cartridge holder
clip
cartridge clip
magazine
gun trigger
lead
trigger
cartridge
shoot up
shot
pellet
firing mechanism
gunlock
lock
pump action
hair-trigger
slide action
choke
full house
discharge
cock
safety
recharge
semiautomatic pistol
gunstock
semiautomatic
Fudd
autoloading
muzzleloader
automatic pistol
muzzle
cap and ball
pistol grip
gunshot
blix
swammy
self-loading
automatic
semi-automatic
shotted
shotshell
pumpy
loaden
triggernometry
wad
scatter gun
concentrator
ammunition belt
scatter-gun
assault weapon
ramrod
choke tube
nest
firing off
battery
bloom
snaphance
firing
rifling
ventilate
muzzleloading
carry
download
service pistol
shooter
breech
bolt
chrome
hardware
weapons emplacement
gunnery
rear of barrel
birdshot
rear of tube
handloader
smoke pole
gun emplacement
bullet
plug
delinker
gun
muzzle energy
powder and shot
retractor
butt
muzzle-loading
full house
semiautomatic
autoloading
cap and ball
self-loading
semi-automatic
shotted
muzzleloading
action
corn
lockwork
striker
gun carriage
handloading
bump stock
lever action
cartridge holder
clip
cartridge clip
magazine
gun trigger
lead
trigger
cartridge
pellet
firing mechanism
gunlock
lock
pump action
hair-trigger
slide action
choke
discharge
cock
semiautomatic pistol
gunstock
semiautomatic
Fudd
muzzleloader
automatic pistol
muzzle
pistol grip
gunshot
blix
swammy
automatic
shotshell
pumpy
triggernometry
wad
scatter gun
concentrator
ammunition belt
scatter-gun
assault weapon
ramrod
choke tube
nest
firing off
battery
bloom
snaphance
firing
rifling
service pistol
shooter
breech
bolt
chrome
hardware
weapons emplacement
gunnery
rear of barrel
birdshot
rear of tube
handloader
smoke pole
gun emplacement
bullet
safety
delinker
gun
muzzle energy
powder and shot
retractor
butt
shoot up
shot
safety
recharge
loaden
ventilate
carry
download
discharge
cock
plug
noun
- In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).
- something done (usually as opposed to something said)
- the state of being active
- a military engagement
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- the series of events that form a plot
- the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
- the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
- a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
- an act by a government body or supranational organization
- the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
verb
noun
- bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
- (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
- A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
- (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
- money.
- A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.
- Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
- A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
- Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
- Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
- A small, hard particle.
verb
noun
- A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
- An individual who is on strike.
- An officer's servant or orderly.
- A piece of metal used to attract a magnet, or as a keeper for a magnet.
- A piece of metal struck against a flint or quartz-rock to produce sparks; a steel.
- A blacksmith's assistant who wields the sledgehammer.
- A piece used to push other pieces toward the pockets in the Asian game of carom.
- The batsman who is currently facing the bowler and defending his wicket.
- The batter.
- One of the players on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
noun
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together
- an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a sharp slanting blow
verb
noun
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
noun
- bullets; ammunition.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
adj
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
noun
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
verb
adj
- Worn out or broken.
- Scarred silly or crazy of something or someone usually due to a traumatic experience with said fear.
- Tired, weary.
- Discharged, cleared, or rid of something.
- Woven from warp and weft strands of different colours, resulting in an iridescent appearance.
intj
noun
- Small metal balls used as ammunition.
- A remark or comment, especially one which is critical or insulting.
- The act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal.
- An opportunity or attempt.
- A cast of one or more nets.
- Metal balls (or similar) used as ammunition; not necessarily small.
- A single draft or catch of fish made.
- A vaccination or injection.
- The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
- A single snapshot or an unbroken sequence of photographic film exposures, or the digital equivalent; an unedited sequence of frames.
- Someone who shoots (a gun, longbow, etc.); a person reckoned as to their aim.
- Written documentation of a behavior infraction.
- The result of launching a projectile or bullet.
- A charge to be paid, a scot or shout.
- A punch or other physical blow.
- A measure of alcohol, usually spirits, as taken either from a shot-glass or directly from the bottle, equivalent to about 44 milliliters; 1.5 ounces. ("pony shot"= 30 milliliters; 1 fluid ounce)
- A single serving of espresso.
- A home run that scores one, two, or three runs (a four run home run is usually referred to as a grand slam).
- A place or spot for setting nets.
noun
- A lead projectile used as ammunition in rifled air guns.
- One of the short conductive tubes in a Pelletron particle accelerator.
- A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
- Compressed byproduct of digestion regurgitated by owls and many other birds of prey, which serves as a waste disposal mechanism for indigestible parts of food, such as fur and bones.
- A roundel sable (black circular spot).
verb
noun
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- a strand or cluster of hair
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
verb
- fasten with a lock
- keep engaged
- become rigid or immoveable
- hold in a locking position
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
noun
- A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
- A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
- The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.
- A choking coil.
- In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
- A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
- A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
verb
- To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
- To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
- To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
- To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
- To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
- To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
- To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
- To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
- To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
- To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
- To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
- To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
- To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
- To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
noun
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The process of flowing out.
- Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- The process of unloading something.
verb
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To release (an accumulated charge).
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
noun
- The hammer of a firearm trigger mechanism.
- The penis.
- The circle at the end of the rink.
- The state of being cocked; an upward turn, tilt or angle.
- Vulva, vagina.
- Shuttlecock.
- A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.
- A cock pigeon.
- The bridge piece that affords a bearing for the pivot of a balance in a clock or watch.
- A valve or tap for controlling flow in plumbing.
- Hay-cock, a small conical pile of hay.
- The crow of a cock, especially the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
- A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- The style or gnomon of a sundial.
- Nonsense; rubbish; a fraud.
- A man; a fellow, especially as a term of address.
- A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.
- The indicator of a balance.
- A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
- A boastful tilt of one's head or hat.
verb
- To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired.
- To turn or twist something upwards or to one side; to lift or tilt (e.g. headwear) boastfully.
- To copulate with; (by extension, as with fuck) to mess up, to damage, to destroy.
- To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted.
- To erect; to turn up.
- To form into piles.
intj
verb
- to secure a firing pin, as in guns, to keep the gun from firing
- To secure (a mechanical component, as in aviation) to keep it from becoming detached even under vibration.
noun
- A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
- An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- A safety squeeze.
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
verb
- To reload a gun with ammunition.
- To attack again or anew.
- To request payment again from.
- To charge an electric battery after its power has been consumed.
- To add or restore water to an aquifer.
- To invigorate and revitalize one's energy level by removing stressful agents for a period of time.
- To charge or accuse in return.
noun
noun
- The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- A person's mouth.
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- A sandwich.
- An ejaculation of semen.
- Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
- Plumbago, graphite.
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
verb
noun
noun
- A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose.
- One who concentrates.
- A hub.
- An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
noun
noun
- A semi-automatic weapon that has a folding stock, a muzzle flash suppressor, a bayonet mount, or a pistol grip.
- A semi-automatic firearm that resembles a military weapon.
- Any select-fire firearm that allows semi-automatic and fully automatic operation, and is used or was once used by a military organization.
noun
- The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
- Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- A device used to power electric devices, consisting of a set of electrically connected electrochemical or, archaically, electrostatic cells. A single such cell when used by itself.
- A coordinated group of artillery weapons.
- The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which includes the threat of impending violence.
- A marching percussion ensemble; a drumline.
- An array of similar things.
- The catcher and the pitcher together
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
noun
- The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
- The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- Flowers.
- A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
verb
- To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
noun
- The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
- The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
- The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
verb
- To shoot with a firearm; to pierce with bullets.
- To provide with a vent.
- To replace stale or noxious air with fresh.
- To provide manual or mechanical breathing to a patient.
- To circulate air through a building, etc.
- To expose something to the circulation of fresh air.
- To expose something to public examination or discussion.
verb
- To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- To have on one's person.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- to physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- To be pregnant (with).
- To lead or guide.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success.
- To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To be transmitted; to travel.
- To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- To insult, to diss.
- to succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
- The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- Carried interest.
- The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- The sky; cloud-drift.
verb
- To load a gun (especially a muzzle-loader) with less propellant than its designed load.
- Synonym of install: to load software forced.
- To transfer data to a given computer from a remote one via a network.
- Synonym of copy: to transfer data to or from removable media.
- Synonym of upload: to send data from a given computer to a remote one.
noun
noun
- A firearm.
- A shooting star.
- An alcoholic beverage typically served in a shot glass.
- A large marble used for knocking smaller marbles out of a chalk circle.
- Someone who shoots something; a gunner, archer, etc.
- A video game in which shooting enemies (or targets) is the main objective.
- The player throwing the dice.
- A professional wrestler who uses actual fighting moves as part of his style, or who speaks his mind during a live or televised event (instead of speaking from a script).
- A device supposed to accumulate orgone.
noun
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
noun
- A firearm.
- Electronic equipment.
- The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
- Fixtures, equipment, tools and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
- Metal implements.
- Medals or trophies.
- Equipment.
noun
- An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- One year of prison time.
- A plumb or sinker.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- Very fast (speedy).
- Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
- The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
verb
verb
- To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
- To persist or continue with something.
- To ingest a drug rectally
- To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
- To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
- To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
noun
- A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
- A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- An electric socket: wall plug.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- A high, tapering silk hat.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- A drug dealer.
- A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- A worthless horse.
- A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
noun
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- The biceps.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- Violent blasts of wind.
- An expert.
- Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- An electron gun.
verb
noun
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
noun
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
- An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
- Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
- A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.
- A thrust in fencing.
- Body; self.
- A used cigarette.
- A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
verb
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