Bullet
(n.) A small ball. |
Bullet
(n.) A missile, usually of lead, and round or elongated in form, to be discharged from a rifle, musket, pistol, or other small firearm. |
Bullet
(n.) A cannon ball. |
Bullet
(n.) The fetlock of a horse. |
Bullet-proof
(a.) Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. |
Grenade
(n.) A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. |
Minie rifle
() A rifle adapted to minie balls. |
Rifle
(v. t.) To seize and bear away by force |
Rifle
(v. t.) To strip |
Rifle
(v. t.) To raffle. |
Rifle
(v. i.) To raffle. |
Rifle
(v. i.) To commit robbery. |
Rifle
(n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket. |
Rifle
(n.) A body of soldiers armed with rifles. |
Rifle
(n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes. |
Rifle
(v. t.) To grove |
Rifle
(v. t.) To whet with a rifle. See Rifle, n., 3. |
Trap
(v. t.) To dress with ornaments |
Trap
(n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock. |
Trap
(a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock |
Trap
(n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals |
Trap
(n.) Fig.: A snare |
Trap
(n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at. |
Trap
(n.) The game of trapball. |
Trap
(n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids. |
Trap
(n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet. |
Trap
(n.) A wagon, or other vehicle. |
Trap
(n.) A kind of movable stepladder. |
Trap
(v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps |
Trap
(v. t.) Fig.: To insnare |
Trap
(v. t.) To provide with a trap |
Trap
(v. i.) To set traps for game |
fastball
heater
smoke hummer
bullet | (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity, he swung late on the fastball, he showed batters nothing but smoke |
| trap block | (American football) an illegal block |
mousetrap
trap play | (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated |
ambush
ambuscade
lying in wait
trap | the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise |
| trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
air gun
airgun
air rifle | a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air |
assault rifle
assault gun | any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use |
automatic rifle
automatic machine rifle | light machine gun |
Browning automatic rifle
BAR | a portable . caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine, used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War |
bullet
slug | a projectile that is fired from a gun |
bullet train
bullet | a high-speed passenger train |
bunker
sand trap
trap | a hazard on a golf course |
dumdum
dumdum bullet | a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound |
Garand rifle
Garand
M-
M- rifle | a semiautomatic rifle |
| grenade | a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile |
| hand grenade | a grenade designed to be thrown by hand |
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
| magic bullet | a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease, there is no magic bullet against cancer |
| rifle | a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore, he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired |
| rifle ball | a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle, no longer made spherical in shape |
| rifle butt | the butt end of a rifle |
| rifle grenade | a grenade that is thrown from a launching device attached to the barrel of a rifle |
| rifle range | a range where people can practice shooting rifles, during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges |
| rubber bullet | a bullet made of hard rubber, designed for use in crowd control |
smoke bomb
smoke grenade | a bomb that gives off thick smoke when it explodes, used to make a smoke screen or to mark a position |
sniper rifle
precision rifle | an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military, capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away |
| steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
suntrap
solar trap | a terrace or garden oriented to take advantage of the sun while protected from cold winds |
tracer
tracer bullet | ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke |
| trap | a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned |
| trap | a light two-wheeled carriage |
| trap | a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters |
| trap | drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas |
| trap-and-drain auger | a plumber's snake for clearing a trap and drain |
| trap door | a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling |
| twenty-two rifle | a .aliber rifle |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
| steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
| silver bullet | a simple guaranteed solution for a difficult problem, no silver bullet can make the world safe from terrorism |
pitfall
booby trap | an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty |
trap
snare | something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares, the exam was full of trap questions, it was all a snare and delusion |
| iron trap | a trap from which there is no escape |
| speed trap | a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders |
ballistic identification
ballistic fingerprinting
bullet fingerprinting | identification of the gun that fired a bullet from an analysis of the unique marks that every gun makes on the bullet it fires and on the shell ejected from it |
National Rifle Association
NRA | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
| trap line | a line or series of traps |
rifle range
rifle shot | the distance that a rifle bullet will carry, the target was out of rifle range |
| bullet hole | a hole made by a bullet passing through it |
grenadier
grenade thrower | an infantryman equipped with grenades |
| poverty trap | a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off |