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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster" [syn: firearm, piece, small-arm]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1646 a weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder — usually used of small arms
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. (usu. in pl.) a gun, esp. a pistol or rifle.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Firearm Fire"arm`, n. A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(firearms) Firearms are guns. (FORMAL) He was also charged with illegal possession of firearms... He was jailed for firearms offences. N-COUNT: usu pl
Moby Thesaurus
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
