arme à feu

Definitions of arme à feu
  1. noun
    a portable gun
    synonyms: pistolet
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    pistolet
    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
    fusil
    a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore
    fusil de chasse
    firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
    carabine
    light automatic rifle
    revolver
    a gangster's pistol
    mousquet
    a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
    revolver
    a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
    type of:
    pistolet, revolver
    a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
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