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Heavy weapon   /hˈɛvi wˈɛpən/   Listen
Heavy weapon

noun
1.
Large but transportable armament.  Synonyms: artillery, gun, ordnance.






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"Heavy weapon" Quotes from Famous Books



... he talked, it shifted smoothly, as if of its own volition, forward toward his fingertips, backward, to the side, dropping out until it seemed about to fall, only to be caught with one finger through the trigger-guard and spun up again. Always the heavy weapon was in motion as though some of the nervous spirit of Reeve had entered the heavy metal. It responded to his thoughts rather than to his muscles. Bull Hunter gazed enchanted. He was accustomed to forgetting himself ...
— Bull Hunter • Max Brand

... and the drops trickle from his wet beard. He stands with an air of stupid abstraction, unconscious of the lurking danger. Noiselessly the hunter cocks his rifle. As he sits upon the sand, his knee is raised, and his elbow rests upon it, that he may level his heavy weapon with a steadier aim. The stock is at his shoulder; his eye ranges along the barrel. Still he is in no haste to fire. The bull, with slow deliberation, begins his march over the sands to the other side. He advances his foreleg, and exposes ...
— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.



Words linked to "Heavy weapon" :   armament, four-pounder, field gun, stock, gun, gunstock, field artillery, cannon, ordnance, battery



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