port arms
rearsight
trail
sighter
parade rest
staff sling
receiver
neck
trunnion plate
arm
foresight
backsight
hindsight
peep sight
knob
wolf hook
lunge
straight thrust
assault weapon
passado
beavertail
riposte
port
duster
self-loader
autoloader
cannoned
breastplate
M-1 rifle
leaf sight
draught hook
gunstock
M-1
charge
Garand
Garand rifle
order arms
jaeger
crosshairs
ord
sight radius
banana clip
cannon
close range
furniture
stock
plasma rifle
twelve
chase
chassepot
boattail
Mannlicher stock
fan
land
amusette
smallbore
butt pad
tupara
armoured car
spontoon
armored car
Gauss gun
weaponous
fillet
tactic
mare's leg
traverse
Winchester
glaive
spitfire
printing
airgun
melee
line of fire
forend
air gun
Kalashnikov
flaming onion
cuirass
air rifle
slope
flanconade
Krupp gun
gun pit
rifle
subweapon
muzzle loader
pop gun
gorgière
tank destroyer
counterarm
breechloader
rear gunner
gunpoint
murder weapon
cannoned
weaponous
melee
port arms
rearsight
sighter
parade rest
staff sling
receiver
neck
trunnion plate
arm
foresight
backsight
hindsight
peep sight
knob
wolf hook
lunge
straight thrust
assault weapon
passado
beavertail
riposte
duster
self-loader
autoloader
breastplate
M-1 rifle
leaf sight
draught hook
gunstock
M-1
charge
Garand
Garand rifle
order arms
jaeger
crosshairs
ord
sight radius
banana clip
cannon
close range
furniture
stock
plasma rifle
twelve
chase
port
chassepot
boattail
Mannlicher stock
land
amusette
smallbore
butt pad
tupara
armoured car
spontoon
armored car
Gauss gun
fillet
tactic
mare's leg
Winchester
glaive
spitfire
airgun
line of fire
forend
air gun
flaming onion
cuirass
air rifle
flanconade
Krupp gun
gun pit
rifle
subweapon
muzzle loader
pop gun
gorgière
tank destroyer
counterarm
breechloader
rear gunner
gunpoint
murder weapon
trail
port arms
port
fan
traverse
printing
slope
verb
- To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To run or climb like certain plants.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- To leave (a trail of).
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- To create a trail in.
noun
- A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- A route or circuit generally.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
noun
- The part of a firearm containing the action.
- A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
- A person who attempts to return the serve.
- Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
- The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
- A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
- A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
- A person who accepts stolen goods.
- An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
- A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
- Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
- An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
- A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
- An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
noun
- The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
- The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
- The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
- A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
- A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
- The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
- A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
- A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
- A falsehood; a lie.
- The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
- The gorgerin of a capital.
- The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
- The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
- A person's life.
- The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
verb
noun
- A weapon.
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
verb
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
adj
noun
- The rear sight of a firearm.
- A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
- A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
verb
noun
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A woman's breast.
- A contemptible person; dick.
- A prominent rounded hill.
- A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- The clitoris.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
verb
noun
- A kind of modern-day assault rifle handle in a similar shape.
- A kind of trap used to catch wolves, consisting of an upper part resembling a crescent moon, meant to be fastened between tree branches, and a lower part (connected by a chain) in the form of a double hook, meant to be covered with meat and swallowed by a wolf.
- A thunderbolt drawn as a straight-edged runic s with a horizontal bar in the middle and the ends angled at 90 degrees centerwise, especially a Nazi one.
noun
- 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.
- A semi-automatic weapon that has a folding stock, a muzzle flash suppressor, a bayonet mount, or a pistol grip.
verb
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship
- bring to port
- land at or reach a port
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship
- carry, bear, convey, or bring
- drink port
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
adj
noun
- a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
- an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
- the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose
- (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)
noun
- A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.
- Someone who dusts.
- An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a blackboard.
- A high pitch toward the batter.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- A type of loose dress worn at home as well within the vicinity of one's home.
- A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
noun
- A piece of armor that covers the chest.
- A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
- A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
- An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.
noun
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
verb
noun
- The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.
- A type of mixture organ stop.
- Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
- Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
noun
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
verb
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
adj
noun
- The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
- One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- The cavity of a mold.
- A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
- Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
- A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
- A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
- A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- A children's game where one player chases another.
- A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
- The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
verb
- To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
- To follow at speed.
- To seek to attain.
- To hunt.
- To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
- To cut (the thread of a screw).
- To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
- To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
- To groove; indent.
- To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
verb
- To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- To strike out.
- To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- To slap (a behind, especially).
- To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- To strike out (a batter).
- To winnow grain.
noun
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
noun
- The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- lant; urine
- The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- realm, domain.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- A country or region.
- A shock or fright.
verb
- To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
- (of a blow) To deliver.
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- To come into rest.
- To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- To acquire; to secure.
- To go down well with an audience.
- To bring to land.
- (of a punch) To connect
- To capture or arrest.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
- A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- A colored or gilded border.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The thread of a screw.
- A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
verb
verb
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
adv
adj
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
- A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
- Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
- A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
- Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
- Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
- To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
- To try to move surreptitiously.
- To tend steadily upward or downward.
- To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
noun
- The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
- An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
- A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
- The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
- The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
- The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
noun
- An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
- A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
- A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
verb
- To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
- To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also riffle)
- To move in a flat ballistic trajectory (as a rifle bullet).
- To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
- To commit robbery or theft.
- To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
- To cause (a projectile, as a rifle bullet) to travel in a flat ballistic trajectory.
- To add a spiral groove to a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight in order to improve range and accuracy.
noun
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