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firearm
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun firearm has 1 sense
- firearm(n = noun.artifact) piece, small-arm - a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" has particulars: autoloader, self-loader, muzzle loader, handgun, pistol, shooting iron, side arm, repeater, repeating firearm, rifle, riot gun, scattergun, shotgun, smoothbore, .22, twenty-two
has parts: firing pin, lock, sights
is a kind of gun
CIDE DICTIONARY
firearm, n.
A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
firearm
automatic, blowgun, blowpipe, flamethrower, gat, gun, handgun, heater, musket, peashooter, piece, pistol, repeater, revolver, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shooting iron, shotgun, six-gun, six-shooter
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