gun
/ˈɡʌn/ nom A2En français : pistolet, flingue, fusil, canon
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. · Guns were considered improvements of crossbows and catapults.· Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised his gun at the approaching deer.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling. · 21-gun salute
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube. · air-pressure pellet gun· zipgun
- A device or tool that projects a substance. · squirt gun· spray gun
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Then I examined the gun.
The sawed gun was not more than two foot long—one could carry it easily under one’s coat.
Do you carry the names of all the gun makers in the world in your memory?”
“The open window, the blood on the sill, the queer card, the marks of boots in the corner, the gun!”
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