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    SMALL-ARM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A portable gunplay

    Example:

    he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster

    Synonyms:

    firearm; piece; small-arm

    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))

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