|
MISSILE |
Projectile |
|
DART |
Feathered projectile |
|
ARROW |
Feathered projectile |
|
RANGE |
Projectile’s distance |
|
|
|
TRACER |
Projectile that leaves a trail |
|
PARABOLA |
Aerial path of a projectile |
|
SPITBALL |
Sodden projectile; test out hypotheses - slang |
|
BALLISTIC |
Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile. |
|
|
|
PROJECTILE |
Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile
force. |
|
BARREL |
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is
discharged. |
|
STRIP |
The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without
acquiring the spiral motion. |
|
AMPLITUDE |
The horizontal line which measures the distance to which
a projectile is thrown; the range. |
|
WINDAGE |
The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile
in passing close to another body. |
|
HOWITZER |
A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow,
could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. |
|
TARGET |
A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the
accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile. |
|
SHUNT |
The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep
to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. |
|
POINT-BLANK |
With artillery, the point where the projectile first
strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the
piece being horizontal. |
|
SHOT |
A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet;
specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or
cannon by the force of an explosive. |
|
CALIBRE |
The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or
of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm
will carry; as, an 8 inch gun, a 12-pounder, a 44 caliber. |
|
SABOT |
A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag
and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a
piece of soft m... |
|
SHELL |
A hollow projectile, of various shapes, adapted for a mortar
or a cannon, and containing an explosive substance, ignited with a fuse
or by perc... |
|
BALL |
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of
lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a
rifle ball; -- o... |
|
BLOWGUN |
A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long,
through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force
of the breath. ... |
|
CARRONADE |
A kind of short cannon, formerly in use, designed to
throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of
breaking or smashing... |
|
GUN |
...istance; any
firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of
gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in ... |