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SMALL-ARM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("small-arm" is a kind of...):
gun (a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel))
Meronyms (parts of "small-arm"):
firing pin (striker that ignites the charge by striking the primer)
lock (a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun)
sights (an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "small-arm"):
autoloader; self-loader (a firearm that reloads itself)
muzzle loader (an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle)
handgun; pistol; shooting iron; side arm (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)
repeater; repeating firearm (a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading)
rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)
riot gun (a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death)
scattergun; shotgun (firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges)
smoothbore (a firearm that has no rifling)
.22; twenty-two (a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle))