a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries
Saturday night special
a cheap handgun that is easily obtained
a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
fowling piece
a light shotgun used for fowling
full metal jacket
a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
whaling gun
a gun (or device resembling a gun) for discharging a projectile (especially a harpoon) at a whale
brilliant pebble
a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles
sawed-off shotgun
a shotgun with short barrels
BB gun
an air gun in which BBs are propelled by compressed air
a knife used as a weapon
clostridium perfringens
anaerobic Gram-positive rod bacterium that produces epsilon toxin; can be used as a bioweapon
Browning automatic rifle
a portable .30 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
staphylococcal enterotoxin B
a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England
rifle ball
a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
duck shot
small lead shot for shotgun shells
weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians
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