меч

uk-noun

меч • (meč) m inan (genitive меча́, nominative plural мечі́, genitive plural мечі́в)

meč (romanization)
меча́ (genitive)
мечі́ (nominative plural)
мечі́в (genitive plural)
меч (nominative singular)
мечі́ (nominative plural)
меча́ (genitive singular)
мечі́в (genitive plural)
мече́ві (dative singular)
мечу́ (dative singular)
меча́м (dative plural)
меч (accusative singular)
мечі́ (accusative plural)
мече́м (instrumental singular)
меча́ми (instrumental plural)
мечу́ (locative singular)
мечі́ (locative singular)
меча́х (locative plural)
ме́чу (singular vocative)
мечі́ (plural vocative)


francotirador

es-noun

francotirador m (plural francotiradores, feminine francotiradora, feminine plural francotiradoras)

francotiradores (plural)
francotiradora (feminine)
francotiradoras (feminine plural)

Calque of French franc-tireur (“sniper, etc.”, literally “free-shooter”).


popinjay

/ˈpɑpənˌd͡ʒeɪ/

From Middle English popinjay, popyngeay, popingay, popejay, from Anglo-Norman papegai, papejoie et al., (northern) Old French papejai (“parrot”), probably from Old Occitan papagay (compare Occitan papagai, Catalan papagai), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

(archery) A target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage.


cat-o'-nine-tails

From cat + of + nine + tails; attested since 1695.

But I do tell you one thing, if you ſhould give ſuch Language at Sea, you'd have a Cat o' Nine-tails laid croſs your Shoulders.

1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene vii, page 44:

(nautical) A scourge (multi-tail whip) having nine, often knotted, whipcords, formerly used for flogging as naval punishment.

A similarly constructed leather nine-tail whip, as used in British penal colonies and certain armies.


nuclear winter

Coined by Richard P. Turco et al. in a 1983 paper.

Coordinate term: volcanic winter

Scientists from the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries will meet in the Vatican Monday to discuss “nuclear winter,” the chilling climatic effect a nuclear war could have on the earth.

1984 January 23, “Parley on ‘Nuclear Winter’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The global temperature declines predicted in the original (1983) nuclear winter scientific paper were 15-20°C; current estimates are 10-15°C. The two values are in good agreement considering the irreducible uncertainties in the calculations. Both temperature declines are much greater than the difference between current global temperatures and those of the last Ice Age. The long-term consequences of global thermonuclear war have been estimated by an international team of 200 scientists, who concluded that through nuclear winter the global civilization and most of the people on Earth— including those far from the northern mid-latitude target zone—would be at risk, mainly from starvation.

1995, Carl Sagan, “When Scientists Know Sin”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 286:

When the salarians discovered them, the krogan were a brutal, primitive species struggling to survive a self-inflicted nuclear winter. The salarians culturally uplifted them, teaching them to use and build modern technology so they could serve as soldiers in the Rachni War.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Krogan Codex entry:

A predicted drop in global temperature following a nuclear war due to dust in the upper atmosphere reducing sunlight reaching the ground.


nuclear war

en-noun

nuclear war (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear wars)

IF JULY 1, 1968, figures in the history books of the future, it will be because of what happened that morning in the East Room of the White House. A few minutes after 11:30 A.M., in that gold-draped room, before hundreds of witnesses and in the glare of television floodlights, representatives of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more than fifty other nations signed the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Under that treaty, nations without nuclear weapons promised not to make them or receive them from others; the treaty assured those nations that they would have access to the full benefits of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Nations with nuclear weapons pledged to work toward effective arms control and disarmament.
This was the most significant step we had yet taken to reduce the possibility of nuclear war. In my remarks following the signing ceremony, I called the treaty "the most important international agreement since the beginning of the nuclear age."

1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 462:

Vladimir Putin has told Nato countries that they risk provoking a nuclear war if they send troops to fight in Ukraine, in an annual state of the nation speech ramping up his threats against Europe and the US.

2024 February 29, Pjotr Sauer, “Sending troops to Ukraine would risk provoking nuclear war, Putin tells Nato”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A war fought using nuclear (fission and/or fusion) weapons.


маслина

ru-noun+

масли́на • (maslína) f inan (genitive масли́ны, nominative plural масли́ны, genitive plural масли́н)

масли́на (canonical)
maslína (romanization)
масли́ны (genitive)
масли́ны (nominative plural)
масли́н (genitive plural)
масли́на (nominative singular)
масли́ны (nominative plural)
масли́ны (genitive singular)
масли́н (genitive plural)
масли́не (dative singular)
масли́нам (dative plural)
масли́ну (accusative singular)
масли́ны (accusative plural)
масли́ной (instrumental singular)
масли́ною (instrumental singular)
масли́нами (instrumental plural)
масли́не (prepositional singular)
масли́нах (plural prepositional)
масли́на (dated nominative singular)
масли́ны (dated nominative plural)
масли́ны (dated genitive singular)
масли́нъ (dated genitive plural)
масли́нѣ (dated dative singular)
масли́намъ (dated dative plural)
масли́ну (accusative dated singular)
масли́ны (accusative dated plural)
масли́ной (dated instrumental singular)
масли́ною (dated instrumental singular)
масли́нами (dated instrumental plural)
масли́нѣ (dated prepositional singular)
масли́нахъ (dated plural prepositional)

[mɐs⁽ʲ⁾ˈlʲinə]

Analyzable as ма́сло (máslo, “oil, butter”) + -и́на (-ína); borrowed from Old Church Slavonic маслина (maslina), from Proto-Slavic *maslo.

af

Тропи́нка шла вдоль высо́кого прибре́жного обры́ва, извива́ясь в тени́ столе́тних масли́н.

1904, Александр Куприн [Aleksandr I. Kuprin], chapter II, in Белый пудель; English translation from Anthony Briggs, transl., Arthur, the White Poodle, London: Hesperus Press Limited, 2012:

The path ran along the top of a steep cliff, meandering through the shade of ancient olive trees.

Tropínka šla vdolʹ vysókovo pribréžnovo obrýva, izvivájasʹ v tení stolétnix maslín.

слови́ть масли́ну

to get shot (literally, “to catch a bullet”)


kisser

(archery) A button on a bowstring that indicates consistent height when drawing a bow, for example by being placed against the archer's mouth .


tirer

tirer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tirant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
tiré (participle past)
tire (first-person indicative present singular)
tires (indicative present second-person singular)
tire (indicative present singular third-person)
tirons (first-person indicative plural present)
tirez (indicative plural present second-person)
tirent (indicative plural present third-person)
tirais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tirais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tirait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tirions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tiriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tiraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
tirai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tiras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
tira (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tirâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tirâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
tirèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tirerai (first-person future indicative singular)
tireras (future indicative second-person singular)
tirera (future indicative singular third-person)
tirerons (first-person future indicative plural)
tirerez (future indicative plural second-person)
tireront (future indicative plural third-person)
tirerais (conditional first-person singular)
tirerais (conditional second-person singular)
tirerait (conditional singular third-person)
tirerions (conditional first-person plural)
tireriez (conditional plural second-person)
tireraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tire (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tires (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tire (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tirions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tiriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tirent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tirasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tirasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tirât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tirassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tirassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tirassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tire (imperative second-person singular)
tirons (first-person imperative plural)
tirez (imperative plural second-person)

Haitian Creole: tire

Louisiana Creole: tiré

From Middle French tirer, from Old French tirer, from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre.

to draw (conclusions), to consider (consequences)


kasa

kasa (nominative singular)
kasat (nominative plural)
kasa (accusative nominative singular)
kasat (accusative nominative plural)
kasan (accusative genitive singular)
kasat (accusative genitive plural)
kasan (genitive singular)
kasojen (genitive plural)
kasain (genitive plural rare)
kasaa (partitive singular)
kasoja (partitive plural)
kasassa (inessive singular)
kasoissa (inessive plural)
kasasta (elative singular)
kasoista (elative plural)
kasaan (illative singular)
kasoihin (illative plural)
kasalla (adessive singular)
kasoilla (adessive plural)
kasalta (ablative singular)
kasoilta (ablative plural)
kasalle (allative singular)
kasoille (allative plural)
kasana (essive singular)
kasoina (essive plural)
kasaksi (singular translative)
kasoiksi (plural translative)
kasatta (abessive singular)
kasoitta (abessive plural)
kasoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kasani (nominative singular)
kasani (nominative plural)
kasani (accusative nominative singular)
kasani (accusative nominative plural)
kasani (accusative genitive singular)
kasani (accusative genitive plural)
kasani (genitive singular)
kasojeni (genitive plural)
kasaini (genitive plural rare)
kasaani (partitive singular)
kasojani (partitive plural)
kasassani (inessive singular)
kasoissani (inessive plural)
kasastani (elative singular)
kasoistani (elative plural)
kasaani (illative singular)
kasoihini (illative plural)
kasallani (adessive singular)
kasoillani (adessive plural)
kasaltani (ablative singular)
kasoiltani (ablative plural)
kasalleni (allative singular)
kasoilleni (allative plural)
kasanani (essive singular)
kasoinani (essive plural)
kasakseni (singular translative)
kasoikseni (plural translative)
kasattani (abessive singular)
kasoittani (abessive plural)
kasoineni (comitative plural)
kasasi (nominative singular)
kasasi (nominative plural)
kasasi (accusative nominative singular)
kasasi (accusative nominative plural)
kasasi (accusative genitive singular)
kasasi (accusative genitive plural)
kasasi (genitive singular)
kasojesi (genitive plural)
kasaisi (genitive plural rare)
kasaasi (partitive singular)
kasojasi (partitive plural)
kasassasi (inessive singular)
kasoissasi (inessive plural)
kasastasi (elative singular)
kasoistasi (elative plural)
kasaasi (illative singular)
kasoihisi (illative plural)
kasallasi (adessive singular)
kasoillasi (adessive plural)
kasaltasi (ablative singular)
kasoiltasi (ablative plural)
kasallesi (allative singular)
kasoillesi (allative plural)
kasanasi (essive singular)
kasoinasi (essive plural)
kasaksesi (singular translative)
kasoiksesi (plural translative)
kasattasi (abessive singular)
kasoittasi (abessive plural)
kasoinesi (comitative plural)
kasamme (nominative singular)
kasamme (nominative plural)
kasamme (accusative nominative singular)
kasamme (accusative nominative plural)
kasamme (accusative genitive singular)
kasamme (accusative genitive plural)
kasamme (genitive singular)
kasojemme (genitive plural)
kasaimme (genitive plural rare)
kasaamme (partitive singular)
kasojamme (partitive plural)
kasassamme (inessive singular)
kasoissamme (inessive plural)
kasastamme (elative singular)
kasoistamme (elative plural)
kasaamme (illative singular)
kasoihimme (illative plural)
kasallamme (adessive singular)
kasoillamme (adessive plural)
kasaltamme (ablative singular)
kasoiltamme (ablative plural)
kasallemme (allative singular)
kasoillemme (allative plural)
kasanamme (essive singular)
kasoinamme (essive plural)
kasaksemme (singular translative)
kasoiksemme (plural translative)
kasattamme (abessive singular)
kasoittamme (abessive plural)
kasoinemme (comitative plural)
kasanne (nominative singular)
kasanne (nominative plural)
kasanne (accusative nominative singular)
kasanne (accusative nominative plural)
kasanne (accusative genitive singular)
kasanne (accusative genitive plural)
kasanne (genitive singular)
kasojenne (genitive plural)
kasainne (genitive plural rare)
kasaanne (partitive singular)
kasojanne (partitive plural)
kasassanne (inessive singular)
kasoissanne (inessive plural)
kasastanne (elative singular)
kasoistanne (elative plural)
kasaanne (illative singular)
kasoihinne (illative plural)
kasallanne (adessive singular)
kasoillanne (adessive plural)
kasaltanne (ablative singular)
kasoiltanne (ablative plural)
kasallenne (allative singular)
kasoillenne (allative plural)
kasananne (essive singular)
kasoinanne (essive plural)
kasaksenne (singular translative)
kasoiksenne (plural translative)
kasattanne (abessive singular)
kasoittanne (abessive plural)
kasoinenne (comitative plural)
kasansa (nominative singular)
kasansa (nominative plural)
kasansa (accusative nominative singular)
kasansa (accusative nominative plural)
kasansa (accusative genitive singular)
kasansa (accusative genitive plural)
kasansa (genitive singular)
kasojensa (genitive plural)
kasainsa (genitive plural rare)
kasaansa (partitive singular)
kasojaan (partitive plural)
kasojansa (partitive plural)
kasassaan (inessive singular)
kasassansa (inessive singular)
kasoissaan (inessive plural)
kasoissansa (inessive plural)
kasastaan (elative singular)
kasastansa (elative singular)
kasoistaan (elative plural)
kasoistansa (elative plural)
kasaansa (illative singular)
kasoihinsa (illative plural)
kasallaan (adessive singular)
kasallansa (adessive singular)
kasoillaan (adessive plural)
kasoillansa (adessive plural)
kasaltaan (ablative singular)
kasaltansa (ablative singular)
kasoiltaan (ablative plural)
kasoiltansa (ablative plural)
kasalleen (allative singular)
kasallensa (allative singular)
kasoilleen (allative plural)
kasoillensa (allative plural)
kasanaan (essive singular)
kasanansa (essive singular)
kasoinaan (essive plural)
kasoinansa (essive plural)
kasakseen (singular translative)
kasaksensa (singular translative)
kasoikseen (plural translative)
kasoiksensa (plural translative)
kasattaan (abessive singular)
kasattansa (abessive singular)
kasoittaan (abessive plural)
kasoittansa (abessive plural)
kasoineen (comitative plural)
kasoinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *kasa, borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (compare Old Norse kǫs), from Proto-Germanic *kasō.


kasa

Borrowed from Spanish caza (“hunting; hunt”).


flamethrower

/ˈfleɪmˌθɹəʊ.ə/

From flame + thrower, calque of German Flammenwerfer.

"We allowed him to kind of orchestrate the whole offense, and he got comfortable early," George said. "He's a flamethrower. Once he gets hot, it's over."

2017 April 11, “Mike Conley Rewards Grizzlies’ Faith With a Career Season”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-01-27:

So when we see guys like that open, we gotta give them the ball. Especially Bryn [Forbes], he's a flamethrower. The guy is one of the best shooters I've been around, so to have him going in the game, it's much needed for us. We need him to get going. We need him to hit shots.

2021 June 15, Eric Nehm, quoting Khris Middleton, “How Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton manipulated the Nets' defense in Game 4”, in The Athletic, archived from the original on 2023-07-04:

Unlike steroids, these supposedly illegal substances were not used in secret. There was an understanding that it was in everyone's best interest — pitchers and hitters alike — for today's flamethrowers to have a good grip on the ball.

2021 June 15, Jesse Campigotto, “Baseball has a sticky situation on its hands”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-07-04:

(basketball, baseball, slang) Someone who is extremely good at throwing or shooting balls.


hache

Borrowed from Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ.


hache

Yola: hachee, haachee

Borrowed from Old French haschiee, hachïe.


hache

French: hache

From Old French hache, from Frankish *happjā.


hache

fro-noun

hache oblique singular, f (oblique plural haches, nominative singular hache, nominative plural haches)

hache oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
haches (oblique plural)
hache (nominative singular)
haches (nominative plural)

Bourguignon: haiche

desc

Champenois: haiche (Troyen), hate (Rémois)

Middle French: hache

French: hache

Gallo: haïche

Poitevin-Saintongeais: hache

Walloon: hatche

→ Iberia:

Asturian: hacha, hachu

Old Catalan: atxa

Old Galician-Portuguese: acha

Portuguese: acha

Old Spanish: facha

Spanish: hacha

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: facha

Galician: facha

→ Italy:

Calabrian: haccia

Italian: azza, accia (archaic)

→ Middle English: hache

From Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kop- (“to strike, beat”).


kusza

kusza (nominative singular)
kusze (nominative plural)
kuszy (genitive singular)
kusz (genitive plural)
kuszy (dative singular)
kuszom (dative plural)
kuszę (accusative singular)
kusze (accusative plural)
kuszą (instrumental singular)
kuszami (instrumental plural)
kuszy (locative singular)
kuszach (locative plural)
kuszo (singular vocative)
kusze (plural vocative)

Unknown. Perhaps borrowed from Czech kuše.

crossbow (mechanised weapon, based on the bow and arrow)


butte

→ English: butte

(archery) a mound of dirt upon which targets were placed to practice shooting


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.


ядро

ru-noun+

ядро́ • (jadró) n inan (genitive ядра́, nominative plural я́дра, genitive plural я́дер, diminutive я́дрышко)

ядро́ (canonical)
jadró (romanization)
ядра́ (genitive)
я́дра (nominative plural)
я́дер (genitive plural)
я́дрышко (diminutive)
ядро́ (nominative singular)
я́дра (nominative plural)
ядра́ (genitive singular)
я́дер (genitive plural)
ядру́ (dative singular)
я́драм (dative plural)
ядро́ (accusative singular)
я́дра (accusative plural)
ядро́м (instrumental singular)
я́драми (instrumental plural)
ядре́ (prepositional singular)
я́драх (plural prepositional)

→ Bulgarian: ядро́ (jadró)

→ Kazakh: ядро (ädro)

→ Kyrgyz: ядро (yadro)


ядро

uk-noun

ядро́ • (jadró) n inan (genitive ядра́, nominative plural я́дра, genitive plural я́дер)

ядро́ (canonical)
jadró (romanization)
ядра́ (genitive)
я́дра (nominative plural)
я́дер (genitive plural)
ядро́ (nominative singular)
я́дра (nominative plural)
ядра́ (genitive singular)
я́дер (genitive plural)
ядру́ (dative singular)
я́драм (dative plural)
ядро́ (accusative singular)
я́дра (accusative plural)
ядро́м (instrumental singular)
я́драми (instrumental plural)
ядрі́ (locative singular)
я́драх (locative plural)
ядро́ (singular vocative)
я́дра (plural vocative)


bascule

A device for coupling and releasing the trigger mechanism in a bascule of a gun

1997, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office:

(firearms) The portion of a breech-loading firearm that pivots open in order to allow access to the chamber.


charger

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒɚ/

-ɑː(ɹ)dʒə(ɹ)

From Middle English chargere, equivalent to charge + -er.

dækketallerken

a large platter under the dinner plate in a formal dinner setting

(firearms) A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.


charger

charger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chargeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chargé (participle past)
charge (first-person indicative present singular)
charges (indicative present second-person singular)
charge (indicative present singular third-person)
chargeons (first-person indicative plural present)
chargez (indicative plural present second-person)
chargent (indicative plural present third-person)
chargeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chargeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chargeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chargions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chargiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chargeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chargeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chargeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chargea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chargeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chargeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chargèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chargerai (first-person future indicative singular)
chargeras (future indicative second-person singular)
chargera (future indicative singular third-person)
chargerons (first-person future indicative plural)
chargerez (future indicative plural second-person)
chargeront (future indicative plural third-person)
chargerais (conditional first-person singular)
chargerais (conditional second-person singular)
chargerait (conditional singular third-person)
chargerions (conditional first-person plural)
chargeriez (conditional plural second-person)
chargeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
charge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
charges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
charge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chargions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chargiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chargent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chargeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chargeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chargeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chargeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chargeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chargeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
charge (imperative second-person singular)
chargeons (first-person imperative plural)
chargez (imperative plural second-person)

Esperanto: ŝarĝi

Persian: شارژ کردن (šârž kardan)

Inherited from Old French chargier, from Late Latin carricāre, from Latin carrus (“four-wheeled baggage wagon”). Compare Spanish cargar.


fallout

en-noun

fallout (countable and uncountable, plural fallouts)

Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism (title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D.)http://www.jewishworldreview.com

A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.


bourrelet

The bourrelet is a slightly raised surface on the rocket designed to maintain a light contact with the inside of the launching tube to center the rocket when fired.

2019, Thomas Gersbeck, Practical Military Ordnance Identification, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 111:

(firearms, weaponry) An accurately machined portion around the diameter of a shell of a gun, which acts to increase accuracy of projectile fit to the barrel.


bourrelet

From bourre + -et (influenced by Old French bourrel).


repeating

repeating (countable and uncountable, plural repeatings)

What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]

1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:


assegai

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

der

اَلزَّغَايَة

But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]

1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 33:

My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Native mats covered the clay walls; a collection of spears, assegais, shields, knives was hung up in trophies.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:

A birdchief, bluestreaked and feathered in war panoply with his assegai, striding through a crackling canebrake over beechmast and acorns.

Without a word, he took my foreskin, pulled it forward, and then, in a single motion, brought down his assegai.

1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 32:

A slim hardwood spear or javelin with an iron tip, especially those used by Bantu peoples of Southern Africa.


bistoury

From French bistouri, from archaic Italian pistorese or pistorino (“from Pistoia”); the city of Pistoia was once famous for the manufacturing of blades.

(surgery) A narrow-bladed surgical knife


delen

delen (infinitive)
to delen (infinitive)
dele (infinitive)
dele (first-person present singular)
delte (first-person past singular)
delde (first-person past singular)
deled (first-person past singular)
delest (present second-person singular)
deltest (past second-person singular)
deldest (past second-person singular)
deledest (past second-person singular)
deleth (present singular third-person)
delte (past singular third-person)
delde (past singular third-person)
deled (past singular third-person)
dele (present singular subjunctive)
delte (past singular subjunctive)
delde (past singular subjunctive)
deled (past singular subjunctive)
dele (imperative present singular)
delen (plural present)
dele (plural present)
delten (past plural)
delte (past plural)
delden (past plural)
delde (past plural)
deleden (past plural)
delede (past plural)
deleth (imperative plural present)
dele (imperative plural present)
delynge (participle present)
delende (participle present)
delt (participle past)
deld (participle past)
deled (participle past)
ydelt (participle past)
ydeld (participle past)

English: deal

Scots: dele, deil

Yola: ee-delt (ppl.)

From Old English dǣlan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną; equivalent to del + -en (infinitival suffix).

(rare) To assign individuals into lots or divisions.


culverin

From Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.

Let Sacars, Culuerings, and Cannons ſound / In honour of their bones, and rock the ground / With all your deafning terrors: for behold / The Balſum for your wounds, are rich mens gold, / Powder the world with wonder, and thus crie, / The Camel now may paſſe the needles eie.

1616, M. Robert Anton, “The Philosophers fovrth Satyr of Mars”, in The Philosophers Satyrs, London: Printed by T[homas] C[reede] and B[ernard] A[lsop] for Roger Iackſon, page 36:

This had been discharged from a culverin on the opposite side of the valley.

1895, R. D. Blackmore, Slain By The Doones, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 6:


culverin

nl-noun

culverin f (plural culverinnen, diminutive culverinnetje n)

culverinnen (plural)
culverinnetje (diminutive neuter)

From Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”).


pistool

pistool n (plural pistolen, diminutive pistooltje n)

pistolen (plural)
pistooltje (diminutive neuter)

Negerhollands: pistool

→ Caribbean Javanese: pistul

→ Indonesian: pistol

→ Japanese: ピストル (pisutoru)

→ Papiamentu: pistool

Probably borrowed from German Pistole, from Middle French pistole, from Middle High German pitschal, pischulle, from Czech píšťala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piščalь, from *piskati, *piščati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pīṣk-.


glair

en-noun

glair (countable and uncountable, plural glairs)

From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).

A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.


helve

English: helve

Scots: helf

From Old English hielfe, from Proto-West Germanic *halbī.


languet

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.

A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:

A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.


aclys

la-noun

āclys f (genitive āclydis); third declension

āclys (canonical feminine)
āclydis (genitive)
āclys (nominative singular)
āclydes (nominative plural)
āclydēs (nominative plural)
āclydis (genitive singular)
āclydum (genitive plural)
āclydī (dative singular)
āclydibus (dative plural)
āclyda (accusative singular)
āclydem (accusative singular)
āclydas (accusative plural)
āclydēs (accusative plural)
āclyde (ablative singular)
āclydibus (ablative plural)
āclys (singular vocative)
āclydes (plural vocative)
āclydēs (plural vocative)

First attested in Virgil’s Aeneid, taken from the Ancient Greek ἀγκῠλῐ́ς (ankŭlĭ́s, “hook”, “barb”).

der

Teretes sunt aclydes illis
tela, sed haec lento mos est aptare flagello.
Their arms are tapered javelins, which they wear bound by a coiling thong. ― tr.: T.C. Williams, The Æneid of Virgil translated into English verse (1908), bk vii, p. 253

29–19 BC, P. Vergilius Maro (aut.), J.B. Greenough (ed.), Aeneis in The Bucolics, Æneid, and Georgics of Virgil (1900), bk vii, ll. 730f.

Iamque Ebusus Phoenissa movet, movet Arbacus arma,

c.''' AD 83–96, Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (aut.), J.D. Duff (ed.), Punica I (1927), bk iii, ll. 362f (p. 140)

Now Phoenician Ebusus rises in arms; and the Arbacians, fierce fighters with the dart or slender javelin. ― tr.: ibidem, p. 141

Aclydes, iacula brevia.

c.''' AD 205–220, Nonius Marcellus (aut.), W.M. Lindsay (ed.), De Conpendiosa Doctrina libri XX (1903), vol. III, bk xix, 554 M., l. 3 (p. 889)

Cur modo præcipites Aclydas ſeponis ab arcu?

1531, Franciscus Bonadus, Eximii prophetarum antiſtitis regia Dauidis oracula, p. 116:

Why do you now lay the swift javelins apart from the bow?


μάχαιρα

grc-noun

μάχαιρα • (mákhaira) f (genitive μᾰχαίρας); first declension

mákhaira (romanization)
μᾰχαίρας (genitive)
ἡ μάχαιρᾰ (nominative singular)
τὼ μαχαίρᾱ (dual nominative)
αἱ μάχαιραι (nominative plural)
τῆς μαχαίρᾱς (genitive singular)
τοῖν μαχαίραιν (dual genitive)
τῶν μαχαιρῶν (genitive plural)
τῇ μαχαίρᾳ (dative singular)
τοῖν μαχαίραιν (dative dual)
ταῖς μαχαίραις (dative plural)
τὴν μάχαιρᾰν (accusative singular)
τὼ μαχαίρᾱ (accusative dual)
τᾱ̀ς μαχαίρᾱς (accusative plural)
μάχαιρᾰ (singular vocative)
μαχαίρᾱ (dual vocative)
μάχαιραι (plural vocative)

⇒ Koine Greek: μαχαίριον (makhaírion) (diminutive)

desc

Greek: μαχαίρι (machaíri), μαχαίρα (machaíra, “large knife”)

→ Greek: μάχαιρα (máchaira) (learned)

→ Latin: machaera

Translingual: †Machairodus

Controversial:
* Traditionally linked to μάχομαι (mákhomai, “to fight”); compare μάχη (mákhē, “a battle, a strife”). Though formally without issues, Chantraine finds this implausible.
* Others consider the word to be from a foreign or substrate source, though exact comparanda are disputed. Lewy considers the word as a Semitic borrowing; compare Hebrew מכרה (mᵉkērā, “sword”). However, Gordon considers the Hebrew to be borrowed from Greek, rather than the other way around.
* Beekes prefers to link the word to μάγειρος (mágeiros, “cook”), taking the γ/χ interchange as evidence of Pre-Greek origin.


μάχαιρα

máchaira (romanization)
μάχαιρα (nominative singular)
μάχαιρας (genitive singular)
μάχαιρα (accusative singular)
μάχαιρα (singular vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μάχαιρα (mákhaira). Doublet of μαχαίρι (machaíri).


time bomb

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

2014 June 6, Françoise Fressoz, “France’s Ticking Time Bomb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “Comment: GBR now! We have no Plan B”, in RAIL, number 984, page 3:

The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.

2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:

(figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.


panos

panos (nominative singular)
panokset (nominative plural)
panos (accusative nominative singular)
panokset (accusative nominative plural)
panoksen (accusative genitive singular)
panokset (accusative genitive plural)
panoksen (genitive singular)
panosten (genitive plural)
panoksien (genitive plural)
panosta (partitive singular)
panoksia (partitive plural)
panoksessa (inessive singular)
panoksissa (inessive plural)
panoksesta (elative singular)
panoksista (elative plural)
panokseen (illative singular)
panoksiin (illative plural)
panoksella (adessive singular)
panoksilla (adessive plural)
panokselta (ablative singular)
panoksilta (ablative plural)
panokselle (allative singular)
panoksille (allative plural)
panoksena (essive singular)
panoksina (essive plural)
panokseksi (singular translative)
panoksiksi (plural translative)
panoksetta (abessive singular)
panoksitta (abessive plural)
panoksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
panokseni (nominative singular)
panokseni (nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative nominative singular)
panokseni (accusative nominative plural)
panokseni (accusative genitive singular)
panokseni (accusative genitive plural)
panokseni (genitive singular)
panosteni (genitive plural)
panoksieni (genitive plural)
panostani (partitive singular)
panoksiani (partitive plural)
panoksessani (inessive singular)
panoksissani (inessive plural)
panoksestani (elative singular)
panoksistani (elative plural)
panokseeni (illative singular)
panoksiini (illative plural)
panoksellani (adessive singular)
panoksillani (adessive plural)
panokseltani (ablative singular)
panoksiltani (ablative plural)
panokselleni (allative singular)
panoksilleni (allative plural)
panoksenani (essive singular)
panoksinani (essive plural)
panoksekseni (singular translative)
panoksikseni (plural translative)
panoksettani (abessive singular)
panoksittani (abessive plural)
panoksineni (comitative plural)
panoksesi (nominative singular)
panoksesi (nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative nominative singular)
panoksesi (accusative nominative plural)
panoksesi (accusative genitive singular)
panoksesi (accusative genitive plural)
panoksesi (genitive singular)
panostesi (genitive plural)
panoksiesi (genitive plural)
panostasi (partitive singular)
panoksiasi (partitive plural)
panoksessasi (inessive singular)
panoksissasi (inessive plural)
panoksestasi (elative singular)
panoksistasi (elative plural)
panokseesi (illative singular)
panoksiisi (illative plural)
panoksellasi (adessive singular)
panoksillasi (adessive plural)
panokseltasi (ablative singular)
panoksiltasi (ablative plural)
panoksellesi (allative singular)
panoksillesi (allative plural)
panoksenasi (essive singular)
panoksinasi (essive plural)
panokseksesi (singular translative)
panoksiksesi (plural translative)
panoksettasi (abessive singular)
panoksittasi (abessive plural)
panoksinesi (comitative plural)
panoksemme (nominative singular)
panoksemme (nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative nominative singular)
panoksemme (accusative nominative plural)
panoksemme (accusative genitive singular)
panoksemme (accusative genitive plural)
panoksemme (genitive singular)
panostemme (genitive plural)
panoksiemme (genitive plural)
panostamme (partitive singular)
panoksiamme (partitive plural)
panoksessamme (inessive singular)
panoksissamme (inessive plural)
panoksestamme (elative singular)
panoksistamme (elative plural)
panokseemme (illative singular)
panoksiimme (illative plural)
panoksellamme (adessive singular)
panoksillamme (adessive plural)
panokseltamme (ablative singular)
panoksiltamme (ablative plural)
panoksellemme (allative singular)
panoksillemme (allative plural)
panoksenamme (essive singular)
panoksinamme (essive plural)
panokseksemme (singular translative)
panoksiksemme (plural translative)
panoksettamme (abessive singular)
panoksittamme (abessive plural)
panoksinemme (comitative plural)
panoksenne (nominative singular)
panoksenne (nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative nominative singular)
panoksenne (accusative nominative plural)
panoksenne (accusative genitive singular)
panoksenne (accusative genitive plural)
panoksenne (genitive singular)
panostenne (genitive plural)
panoksienne (genitive plural)
panostanne (partitive singular)
panoksianne (partitive plural)
panoksessanne (inessive singular)
panoksissanne (inessive plural)
panoksestanne (elative singular)
panoksistanne (elative plural)
panokseenne (illative singular)
panoksiinne (illative plural)
panoksellanne (adessive singular)
panoksillanne (adessive plural)
panokseltanne (ablative singular)
panoksiltanne (ablative plural)
panoksellenne (allative singular)
panoksillenne (allative plural)
panoksenanne (essive singular)
panoksinanne (essive plural)
panokseksenne (singular translative)
panoksiksenne (plural translative)
panoksettanne (abessive singular)
panoksittanne (abessive plural)
panoksinenne (comitative plural)
panoksensa (nominative singular)
panoksensa (nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative nominative singular)
panoksensa (accusative nominative plural)
panoksensa (accusative genitive singular)
panoksensa (accusative genitive plural)
panoksensa (genitive singular)
panostensa (genitive plural)
panoksiensa (genitive plural)
panostaan (partitive singular)
panostansa (partitive singular)
panoksiaan (partitive plural)
panoksiansa (partitive plural)
panoksessaan (inessive singular)
panoksessansa (inessive singular)
panoksissaan (inessive plural)
panoksissansa (inessive plural)
panoksestaan (elative singular)
panoksestansa (elative singular)
panoksistaan (elative plural)
panoksistansa (elative plural)
panokseensa (illative singular)
panoksiinsa (illative plural)
panoksellaan (adessive singular)
panoksellansa (adessive singular)
panoksillaan (adessive plural)
panoksillansa (adessive plural)
panokseltaan (ablative singular)
panokseltansa (ablative singular)
panoksiltaan (ablative plural)
panoksiltansa (ablative plural)
panokselleen (allative singular)
panoksellensa (allative singular)
panoksilleen (allative plural)
panoksillensa (allative plural)
panoksenaan (essive singular)
panoksenansa (essive singular)
panoksinaan (essive plural)
panoksinansa (essive plural)
panoksekseen (singular translative)
panokseksensa (singular translative)
panoksikseen (plural translative)
panoksiksensa (plural translative)
panoksettaan (abessive singular)
panoksettansa (abessive singular)
panoksittaan (abessive plural)
panoksittansa (abessive plural)
panoksineen (comitative plural)
panoksinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *panos. Equivalent to panna (“to put”) + -os.

(weaponry, construction, demolition, mining) load, explosive charge (usually including a detonator)


improvised explosive device

en-noun

improvised explosive device (plural improvised explosive devices)

As a descriptive term, appearing in the early 20th century. In the narrower sense describing weapons of irregulars and terrorists, popularized in the British Army during the Troubles and in the US during the Iraq War.

An unconventional or amateur explosive weapon made from nonmilitary components, especially one used by guerillas, commandos or terrorists.

unkonventionelle Spreng- und Brandvorrichtung


roadside bomb

An explosive device placed at the side of a road and detonated when the target passes.


Thompson submachine gun

Thompson submachine gun (plural Thompson submachine guns)

From Thompson + submachine gun. Named after John Taliaferro Thompson, an American army officer.

A .45-caliber American submachine gun, having a wooden stock and a drum, stick, or box magazine.

en:John Taliaferro Thompson
en:Thompson submachine gun


Thompson

Variant of Thomson, from Tom + -son, originally meaning "son of Thomas".
* Calque of Scottish Gaelic MacTamhais (“McTavish”); also an anglicisation of the Gaelic name MacTamhais, meaning "son of Thomas".

calque

Thompson submachine gun
Thompson submachine gun#English

(firearms) Ellipsis of Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy gun”).


свинец

ru-noun+

свине́ц • (svinéc) m inan (genitive свинца́, nominative plural свинцы́, genitive plural свинцо́в, relational adjective свинцо́вый)

свине́ц (canonical)
svinéc (romanization)
свинца́ (genitive)
свинцы́ (nominative plural)
свинцо́в (genitive plural)
свинцо́вый (adjective relational)
свине́ц (nominative singular)
свинцы́ (nominative plural)
свинца́ (genitive singular)
свинцо́в (genitive plural)
свинцу́ (dative singular)
свинца́м (dative plural)
свине́ц (accusative singular)
свинцы́ (accusative plural)
свинцо́м (instrumental singular)
свинца́ми (instrumental plural)
свинце́ (prepositional singular)
свинца́х (plural prepositional)

→ Kildin Sami: выӊӊҍц (vyn̥n̥’c)

→ Yakut: сибиниэс (sibinies)

Inherited from Old East Slavic свиньць (svinĭcĭ), from Proto-Slavic *svinьcь.

inh+

свине́цъ — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

chemical element
chemical element#English


runa

la-noun

rūna f (genitive rūnae); first declension

rūna (canonical feminine)
rūnae (genitive)
rūna (nominative singular)
rūnae (nominative plural)
rūnae (genitive singular)
rūnārum (genitive plural)
rūnae (dative singular)
rūnīs (dative plural)
rūnam (accusative singular)
rūnās (accusative plural)
rūnā (ablative singular)
rūnīs (ablative plural)
rūna (singular vocative)
rūnae (plural vocative)


ricasso

Borrowed from Italian ricasso. Further etymology unknown.

The blunt area of a sword just above the hilt, used for grip and maneuverability.


تفنگ

head

تفنگ • (tofang) (plural تفنگها (tofang-hâ))

→ Bakhtiari: تفنگ (tofang)

→ Bashkardi:

Minabi: تفنگ (tofang)

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: तुफ़ंग (tufaṅg)

Urdu: تفنگ (tufáng)

→ Kermanic:

Abuzeydabadi: tafang

Abyanehi: tofang

Hanjani, Yarandi: tefeng

→ Pashto: تفنگ (tufáng), توپک (topák)

→ Parachi: تفنگ (tofang)

→ Yidgha: [script needed] (tûfuk)

[t̪ʰu.fäŋɡ̥]

[t̪ʰo.fæɲɡʲ̥]

Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam

Borrowed most likely from Chagatai or Khorezmian Turkic and borrowed at least semantically also from Ottoman Turkish تفنك (tüfenk), cognate to Karakhanid [script needed] (tüwek) in the Dīwān Luḡāt at-Turk meaning a blowpipe propelling pebbles to kill birds, so called by onomatopoeia mimicking the sound made when it is puffed: Tüf! See Azerbaijani tüfəng for cognates. The terminus ante quem the tüfenk in the meaning of a matchlock-gun has resounded in Persian lands is the end of the Battle of Çaldıran where the Safavids incurred resounding defeat because of the Ottoman use of – then expensive – firearms to devastate the Persians as resolutely as never before because of the new Shia threat.


chongo

Of disputed origin. Possibly borrowed from Classical Nahuatl.

(in the plural) a Mexican dessert made with milk, sugar and cinnamon. The milk is scalded and rennet is added to start the formation of curds, like when making cheese


knobkierie

Borrowed from Afrikaans knopkierie, from knop (“knob”) + kierie (“stick”).

(South Africa) A fighting stick, usually with a knob on the end.


оружие массового поражения

ru-noun+

ору́жие ма́ссового пораже́ния • (orúžije mássovovo poražénija) n inan (genitive ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния, nominative plural ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния, genitive plural ору́жий ма́ссового пораже́ния)

ору́жие ма́ссового пораже́ния (canonical)
orúžije mássovovo poražénija (romanization)
ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния (genitive)
ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния (nominative plural)
ору́жий ма́ссового пораже́ния (genitive plural)
ору́жие ма́ссового пораже́ния (nominative singular)
ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния (nominative plural)
ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния (genitive singular)
ору́жий ма́ссового пораже́ния (genitive plural)
ору́жию ма́ссового пораже́ния (dative singular)
ору́жиям ма́ссового пораже́ния (dative plural)
ору́жие ма́ссового пораже́ния (accusative singular)
ору́жия ма́ссового пораже́ния (accusative plural)
ору́жием ма́ссового пораже́ния (instrumental singular)
ору́жиями ма́ссового пораже́ния (instrumental plural)
ору́жии ма́ссового пораже́ния (prepositional singular)
ору́жиях ма́ссового пораже́ния (plural prepositional)

[ɐˈruʐɨje ˈmasːəvəvə pərɐˈʐɛnʲɪjə]

weapon(s) of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

(uncountable) weapon(s) of mass destruction

ru:оружие массового поражения

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scalpel

Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Displaced native Old English lǣċeseax (literally “doctor knife”).

ncog

A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.


scalpel

Learned borrowing from Latin scalpellum.


scalpel

scalpele (plural)
scalpel (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
scalpelul (accusative definite nominative singular)
scalpele (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
scalpelele (accusative definite nominative plural)
scalpel (indefinite singular)
scalpelului (definite singular)
scalpele (indefinite singular)
scalpelelor (definite plural)
scalpelule (singular vocative)
scalpelelor (vocative)


forearm

From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).

(firearms) A section of the weapon between the receiver and the muzzle, used to hold the firearm steady.


circumcise

en-verb

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)

circumcises (present singular third-person)
circumcising (participle present)
circumcised (participle past)
circumcised (past)

From Old French circoncisier, from Latin circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).

(military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.


full house

American Handgunner, Heavyweight Bullets In The .357 Magnum
An occasional pig, and not so occasional ram, would quiver and then settle back down without toppling, even when hit dead center with a full-house load with a 158-gr. jacketed .357 Magnum bullet.

(firearms) Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.


kiloton

That's a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead.

Halifax in Canada was devastated by a ship exploding in 1917. SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.

2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 53:

A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.


megaton

The sins of all our fathers, being dumped on us — the sons
The only choice we're given is: How many megatons?
And I eschew you!
And I say: Screw you!
And I hope you're blue, too.

1986, Kirk Thatcher, 44:05 from the start, in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Paramount Pictures, →OCLC:

Integrating data from all continents and major biomes, we conservatively estimate 20 × 1015 (20 quadrillion) ants on Earth, with a total biomass of 12 megatons of dry carbon.

2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 2:

A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many million tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.


skene

English: skean, skene, skeyn

Borrowed from Middle Irish scian, from Old Irish scían, from Proto-Celtic *skiyenā; compare Middle Welsh ysgien. This word was borrowed late enough for the orthographic final vowel to be illusory.

(Late Middle English, rare) skean (kind of dagger)


tschinke

(firearms) A light wheellock hunting rifle once used for shooting wildfowl.


quarterstaff

en-noun

quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves)

quarterstaffs (plural)
quarterstaves (plural)

From quarter + staff, attested since about 1550. Probably originally referred to a staff cut from the heartwood of a certain size of tree which was cleft into four parts, per the OED.

Name my accuſer ſaith he, or I defye thee Kemp at the quart ſtaffe.

1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder:

[F]ew country people there are who do not love to see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.

1881, Walter Besant, James Rice, “How Kitty First Saw the Doctor”, in The Chaplain of the Fleet […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, part I (Within the Rules), page 82:

A wooden staff with an approximate length between 2 and 2.5 meters, sometimes tipped with iron, used as a weapon in rural England during the Early Modern period.


cannelure

(firearms) A ringlike groove, such as that around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling.


zero deflection

(firearms) The adjustment of a sight, exactly parallel to the axis of the bore of the gun to which it is attached.


deflection change

deflection change (plural deflection changes)

deflection difference
deflection difference

(weaponry) A change in azimuth setting applying to all guns in a battery when the target moves, or when a shift is made from one target to another. A deflection change does not include the deflection difference which allows for the difference in positions of the various guns firing at the same target.


fléau

Inherited from Old French flaiel, flael, flayau, inherited from Latin flagellum.


horsewhip

en-verb

horsewhip (third-person singular simple present horsewhips, present participle horsewhipping, simple past and past participle horsewhipped)

horsewhips (present singular third-person)
horsewhipping (participle present)
horsewhipped (participle past)
horsewhipped (past)

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"Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city. Only think, sir, of horsewhipping a publisher!" and Mr. Lintot grew pale with excess of horror.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 22:

He had told his wife that he would ask Fletcher to give up the borough, and that he would make that request with a horsewhip in his hand […] But there were difficulties. A man is not horsewhipped simply because you wish to horsewhip him.

1876, Anthony Trollope, The Prime Minister. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:

[H]e horsewhipped Sam Brewer, the well-known Curzon Street moneylender, on Newmarket Heath. He nearly killed the man.

1927 March 5, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published June 1927, →OCLC, page 277:

Ten years ago, with the secret out, they and South African judge James Harkess arrived back in London, with the husband/father saying he wanted to have Mr Clark horsewhipped.

2004 June 12, Vikram Dodd, “Coven's footnote to Clark diaries”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(transitive) To flog or lash (someone or something) with a horsewhip.


biathlon

en-noun

biathlon (countable and uncountable, plural biathlons)

/baɪˈæθˌlɑn/

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From bi- (prefix meaning ‘two; both’) + -athlon (suffix meaning ‘contest’), modelled after pentathlon.

confix

cross-country skiing
cross-country skiing

(winter sports, uncountable) Racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; (countable) a particular instance of such a race.

biatlón

racing combining cross-country skiing and rifle shooting; a particular instance of such a race

duathlon · triathlon · quadrathlon · tetrathlon · pentathlon · hexathlon · heptathlon · octathlon · decathlon · pentadecathlon


buckshot

en-noun

buckshot (countable and uncountable, plural buckshots)

Coordinate term: birdshot

Our men were all well armed with Colt's revolvers and Mississippi yagers, which last, carried a bullet, and two buckshots.

1879, Buffalo Bill, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, page 58:

(chiefly US) Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game. [from 18th c.]


rafale

Origin uncertain. Possibly related to Italian raffica influenced by affaler.

(by extension, military) burst (series of shots fired from an automatic firearm)


kosa

kosa (nominative singular)
kosy (nominative plural)
kosy (genitive singular)
kos (genitive plural)
kosie (dative singular)
kosom (dative plural)
kosę (accusative singular)
kosy (accusative plural)
kosą (instrumental singular)
kosami (instrumental plural)
kosie (locative singular)
kosach (locative plural)
koso (singular vocative)
kosy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish kosa, from Proto-Slavic *kosa.


kosa

kòsa (canonical feminine)
ко̀са (Cyrillic)
kosa (nominative singular)
kose (nominative plural)
kose (genitive singular)
kosa (genitive plural)
kosi (dative singular)
kosama (dative plural)
kosu (accusative singular)
kose (accusative plural)
koso (singular vocative)
kose (plural vocative)
kosi (locative singular)
kosama (locative plural)
kosom (instrumental singular)
kosama (instrumental plural)


kosa

sk-noun

kosa f (diminutive kosička, augmentative kosisko)

kosička (diminutive)
kosisko (augmentative)
nominative
kosa (singular)
kosy (plural)
genitive
kosy (singular)
kôs (plural)
dative
kose (singular)
kosám (plural)
accusative
kosu (singular)
locative
kosách (plural)
instrumental
kosou (singular)
kosami (plural)


коса

ru-noun+

коса́ • (kosá) f inan (genitive косы́, nominative plural ко́сы, genitive plural кос, diminutive коси́чка)

коса́ (canonical)
kosá (romanization)
косы́ (genitive)
ко́сы (nominative plural)
кос (genitive plural)
коси́чка (diminutive)
коса́ (nominative singular)
ко́сы (nominative plural)
косы́ (genitive singular)
ко́с (genitive plural)
косе́ (dative singular)
ко́сам (dative plural)
косу́ (accusative singular)
ко́сы (accusative plural)
косо́й (instrumental singular)
косо́ю (instrumental singular)
ко́сами (instrumental plural)
косе́ (prepositional singular)
ко́сах (plural prepositional)
коса́ (dated nominative singular)
ко́сы (dated nominative plural)
косы́ (dated genitive singular)
ко́съ (dated genitive plural)
косѣ́ (dated dative singular)
ко́самъ (dated dative plural)
косу́ (accusative dated singular)
ко́сы (accusative dated plural)
косо́й (dated instrumental singular)
косо́ю (dated instrumental singular)
ко́сами (dated instrumental plural)
косѣ́ (dated prepositional singular)
ко́сахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: kassa

Samic:

desc

→ Kildin Sami: коассь (kåss’, “braid, plait”), ко̄сс (kōss, “scythe”)

→ Skolt Sami: kåʹss (“braid, plait”), koss (“scythe”)

→ Ter Sami: коссе (kossʼe, “braid, plait”), кыэййсе (kïejjsʼe, “scythe”)

Inherited from Old East Slavic коса (kosa), from Proto-Slavic *kosa.


коса

ко̀са (canonical feminine)
kòsa (romanization)
коса (nominative singular)
косе (nominative plural)
косе (genitive singular)
коса (genitive plural)
коси (dative singular)
косама (dative plural)
косу (accusative singular)
косе (accusative plural)
косо (singular vocative)
косе (plural vocative)
коси (locative singular)
косама (locative plural)
косом (instrumental singular)
косама (instrumental plural)


коса

uk-noun

коса́ • (kosá) f inan (genitive коси́, nominative plural ко́си, genitive plural кіс)

коса́ (canonical)
kosá (romanization)
коси́ (genitive)
ко́си (nominative plural)
кіс (genitive plural)
коса́ (nominative singular)
ко́си (nominative plural)
коси́ (genitive singular)
кіс (genitive plural)
косі́ (dative singular)
ко́сам (dative plural)
ко́су (accusative singular)
ко́си (accusative plural)
косо́ю (instrumental singular)
ко́сами (instrumental plural)
косі́ (locative singular)
ко́сах (locative plural)
ко́со (singular vocative)
ко́си (plural vocative)


blida

la-noun

blīda f (genitive blīdae); first declension

blīda (canonical feminine)
blīdae (genitive)

→ Middle Dutch: blide

Dutch: blijde

→ Middle High German: blīde

German: Blide, Bleide

→ Middle Low German: blîde

→ Danish: blide

→ Swedish: blida

According to Niermeyer, from Byzantine Greek βάλις, βάλιδος (bális, bálidos), related to Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Attested in Latin since the 13th century.

bor

βάλις, βάλιδος

levatis circumquaque [apud Kenylworthe] machinis novem, que vocantur blidis, lapides jacere non cessabant, confringentes ex his domos et turres ligneas; muros et opus lapideum prosternere volentes, in nullo dampnificare poterant

before 1266, Ricardus Anglicus de Morins, Annales Prioratus de Dunstaplia, (edited by Hearne in 1733, as cited in DMLBS)

At Kenilworth, after taking nine machines called blidae (trebuchets) everywhere around, they would not stop throwing rocks, shattering houses and towers made of wood, but even though they wanted to open walls and other work made of rock, they could not damage them.


Stalin

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Borrowed from Russian Ста́лин (Stálin), from сталь (stalʹ, “steel”) + -ин (-in, possessive suffix), from German Stahl (“steel”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stahlą (“steel”).

suf

A surname from Russian; usually referring to the Russian [empire, republic] revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Joseph Stalin.


carronade

The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04:

An exchange of artillery fire; a cannonade; a fusillade.


vuurwapen

nl-noun

vuurwapen n (plural vuurwapens, diminutive vuurwapentje n)

vuurwapens (plural)
vuurwapentje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: senjata api (calque)


trekker

trekker m (plural trekkers, diminutive trekkertje n)

trekkers (plural)
trekkertje (diminutive neuter)

Jersey Dutch: träkker

From Middle Dutch trecker. Equivalent to trekken + -er. The sense “tractor” is a phono-semantic matching of English tractor. Compare the same in German Trecker.


puñal

Borrowed from Spanish puñal, from Vulgar Latin *pūgnālis, based on Latin pūgnus (“fist”). Or a shortening of older cuchillo (“knife”) puñal, deriving from the above word and meaning as big as a fist. Compare Portuguese punhal, Catalan punyal, Italian pugnale, French poignard.

Puñal arma vſada.lo miſmo. vel,tepuz teixiliuani.

1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 205r:

A dagger, a widely used weapon. the same, or tepuz teixiliuani.

Puñal,arma vſada. lo meſmo. vel. tepuzteixiliuani.

1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 100r. col. 1:

A dagger, a widely used weapon. the same, or tepuzteixiliuani.


puñal

14th century. Either from puño (“wrist; fist”) + -al, from Latin pugnus (“fist”), or from a Vulgar Latin *pūgnālis, pūgnāle. Compare Portuguese punhal, Spanish puñal, Catalan punyal, Italian pugnale, French poignard, Romanian pumnal.

poniard (a dagger with a triangular blade)


神器

(Shinto) an item used in Shinto ceremonies to worship a god


sagittary

/ˈsæd͡ʒɪtəɹi/

From Latin sagittarius, from sagitta (“arrow”). Doublet of Sagittarius.

Born till Crassus perished by them, at which time a Sagittary was blazoned in their Royal Standard: [...] Darius being stamped on the one side and a Sagittary (his coat-armour) on the other; memorized by Plutarch in the life of Agesilaus, who complained that his design of conquering Asia was prevented by thirty thousand Sagittaries; meaning a Bribe of so many[…]

1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Years Travels Into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, page 301:

(archaic) An archer; by extension, a coin used in ancient Persia and Greece featuring an archer.


bridge mount

(firearms) A sight mount with a strong metal frame between the rings, used on large-caliber rifles to negate the effects of recoil on accuracy.


אלה

he-noun

אֵלָה • (elá) f

Root
 א־ל־ל (ʾ-l-l)
 0 terms
Compare אֵלוֹן (elōn, “great tree”), אַלּוֹן (allōn, “great tree; oak”), and the plurale tantum אֵילִים (ēlīm, “mighty tree”).

A terebinth, a tree of the genus Pistacia.


חרב

חֶרֶב • (khérev) f (plural indefinite חֲרָבוֹת, singular construct חֶרֶב־, plural construct חַרְבוֹת־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

חֶרֶב (canonical)
khérev (romanization)
חֲרָבוֹת (indefinite plural)
חֶרֶב־ (construct singular)
חַרְבוֹת־ (construct plural)

→ Ladino: aharvar

Root
 ח־ר־ב (kh-r-b)
 0 terms
From Proto-Semitic *x̣arb-.


cocked

(firearms) Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.

viritetty

firearms: having the cock lifted or prepared to be fired


kiasi

sw-noun

kiasi class VII (plural viasi class VIII)

kiasi class VII (canonical)
viasi class VIII (plural)


sandbag

A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel.

A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel.


sandbag

en-verb

sandbag (third-person singular simple present sandbags, present participle sandbagging, simple past and past participle sandbagged)

sandbags (present singular third-person)
sandbagging (participle present)
sandbagged (participle past)
sandbagged (past)

We sandbagged the basement windows against the floodwaters.

The height “49 feet” became a mantra, as volunteers worked for weeks sandbagging and building to match that height.

2007, Sheri O'Meara, Storms 2: Tales of Extreme Weather Events in Minnesota, D Media, →ISBN, page 69:

(transitive, intransitive) To construct a barrier of sandbags (around).

muurata hiekkasäkeillä

To construct a barrier of sandbags around

under the table
drink someone under the table

To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".


athame

From French arthame in a 1929 passage from É.-J. Grillot de Givry (see 1931 citation below), apparently from Medieval Latin artavus (“quill-sharpening knife”). Artavus was also mistranslated into artauo in an Italian manuscript. The arthame was conflated with the cortel nero ("black knife") by Grillot de Givry, and that conflation was passed on to Gerald Gardner (whose 1954 book Witchcraft Today introduced Wicca to the public).

der

She is moving with a regal gait, grasping the arthame, or magic knife.

1931, Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry, chapter 7, in JC Locke, transl., Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy:

Agia was quicker, making a cut at my neck with an athame before his weapon was free of the scabbard.

1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 60:

The athame is a black-handled ritual knife—one of the most common distinguishing marks of the Neopagan Witch.

1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions, page 22:

Tradition says an athame should never have drawn blood.

2023, Skye Alexander, The Kitchen Witch, Simon & Schuster (Adams Media), page 60:

A ceremonial pointed knife or dagger, used especially in Wicca and other neopagan traditions and typically having a black handle with magical symbols on it.

Gerald Gardner
Witchcraft Today
athame
Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry


repeater

(firearms, dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.

автоматична пушка

a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot


pistola

pistola (absolutive indefinite)
pistola (absolutive indefinite singular)
pistolak (absolutive indefinite plural)
pistolak (ergative indefinite)
pistolak (ergative indefinite singular)
pistolek (ergative indefinite plural)
pistolari (dative indefinite)
pistolari (dative indefinite singular)
pistolei (dative indefinite plural)
pistolaren (genitive indefinite)
pistolaren (genitive indefinite singular)
pistolen (genitive indefinite plural)
pistolarekin (comitative indefinite)
pistolarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
pistolekin (comitative indefinite plural)
pistolarengatik (causative indefinite)
pistolarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
pistolengatik (causative indefinite plural)
pistolarentzat (benefactive indefinite)
pistolarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
pistolentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
pistolaz (indefinite instrumental)
pistolaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
pistolez (indefinite instrumental plural)
pistolatan (indefinite inessive)
pistolan (indefinite inessive singular)
pistoletan (indefinite inessive plural)
pistolatako (indefinite locative)
pistolako (indefinite locative singular)
pistoletako (indefinite locative plural)
pistolatara (allative indefinite)
pistolara (allative indefinite singular)
pistoletara (allative indefinite plural)
pistolataraino (indefinite terminative)
pistolaraino (indefinite singular terminative)
pistoletaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
pistolatarantz (directive indefinite)
pistolarantz (directive indefinite singular)
pistoletarantz (directive indefinite plural)
pistolatarako (destinative indefinite)
pistolarako (destinative indefinite singular)
pistoletarako (destinative indefinite plural)
pistolatatik (ablative indefinite)
pistolatik (ablative indefinite singular)
pistoletatik (ablative indefinite plural)
pistolarik (indefinite partitive)
pistolatzat (indefinite prolative)


pistola

Borrowed from French pistole, from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”).


pistola

la-noun

pistōla f (genitive pistōlae); first declension

pistōla (canonical feminine)
pistōlae (genitive)
pistōla (nominative singular)
pistōlae (nominative plural)
pistōlae (genitive singular)
pistōlārum (genitive plural)
pistōlae (dative singular)
pistōlīs (dative plural)
pistōlam (accusative singular)
pistōlās (accusative plural)
pistōlā (ablative singular)
pistōlīs (ablative plural)
pistōla (singular vocative)
pistōlae (plural vocative)

[pɪs̠ˈt̪oːɫ̪ä]

Borrowed from Middle French pistole or Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese pistola. The penultimate syllable is long because it carries stress.


pistola

→ Bengali: পিস্তল (pistol)

→ Gujarati: પિસ્તોલ (pistol)

→ Hindustani:

desc

Hindi: पिस्तौल (pistaul), पिस्तोल (pistol)

Urdu: پسطول (pistol)

→ Sinhalese: පිස්තෝලය (pistōlaya)

→ Swahili: bastola

Probably from French pistole, ultimately from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from pištěti (“to whistle”), of imitative origin.
Perhaps, however, from Italian pistolese (“from Pistoia (a city in Tuscany)”).


pistola

→ Basque: pistola

→ Bikol Central: pistola

→ Cebuano: pistola

→ San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: pistola

→ Tagalog: pistola

→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: pi̱stula

Borrowed from German Pistole, from Czech píšťala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”).


pistola

Borrowed from Spanish pistola, from German Pistole, from Czech píšťala.


escopeta

Borrowed from Spanish escopeta (“rifle”), from Italian schioppetto, from schioppo (“gun, rifle”).


escopeta

→ Murui Huitoto: kobeda

→ Neapolitan: scoppetta

→ Portuguese: escopeta

→ Tetelcingo Nahuatl: escopieta


plunger

(firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.


cel

cel (nominative singular)
cele (nominative plural)
celu (genitive singular)
celi (genitive plural)
celów (genitive plural)
celowi (dative singular)
celom (dative plural)
cel (accusative singular)
cele (accusative plural)
celem (instrumental singular)
celami (instrumental plural)
celu (locative singular)
celach (locative plural)
celu (singular vocative)
cele (plural vocative)

→ Belarusian: цэль (celʹ)

→ Esperanto: celo

→ Kashubian: cél

→ Slovincian: cél

→ Russian: цель (celʹ)

→ Ukrainian: ціль (cilʹ)

Inherited from Old Polish cel. Compare German Ziel.

(archaic, firearms) foresight (front sight of a rifle)


Strategic Defense Initiative

the Strategic Defense Initiative (canonical)

(historical) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.


(physics) The radioactive isotope of strontium, ⁹⁰₃₈Sr, that is present in the fallout from nuclear explosions and, being chemically similar to calcium, accumulates in the bones

стронций-90

стронций-девяносто


dotty

Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses
Then some OGs was consignin me them ounces
Wet man round me had me feeling like I’m drownin
Fam we really went there with a brownin
Me and next man really went there with a dotty
05 murder squad nicked me for a [censored]

2013, “Mad Years”, in Potter Payper (lyrics), Training Day, performed by Potter Payper:

They dont know what I’ve been through
Red dot on his head like a hindu
Scrams, Face just stack for the Wesson
Ca’ be the gunplay that we’re into
It’s like them man chill with the singer
Two dot dots there in the dinger
Yard man’s got a dotty in the rave
But he’s still tryna do the La Linga
We’ve had guns and shanks without awareness
We’ve had guns and shanks we’re so fearless

2017, “Mad About Bars”, TMula (lyrics), performed by 86 (TMula x Scrams):

Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y):

I’m out here from the night till dawn
The dotty’s out but I like it sawn

2020, “Respawn”, Cillian (lyrics), chorus:


plink

en-verb

plink (third-person singular simple present plinks, present participle plinking, simple past and past participle plinked)

plinks (present singular third-person)
plinking (participle present)
plinked (participle past)
plinked (past)

We plinked all week long in the slow-moving days between hunting seasons. Life Savers or Necco Wafers at 25 yards offhand, or 50 yards prone, and vanilla wafers offhand at 50 yards or prone at 100, were challenging targets.

1992, Ken Warner, Gun Digest, 1993, page 19:

(firearms) To take part in the sport of plinking.


parang

en-noun

parang (countable and uncountable, plural parangs)

Spanish parranda (“merry-making or a group of serenaders”).

uder

A style of music originating from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly influenced by Venezuelan music.


parang

From Malay parang, from Proto-Malayic *paraŋ.
* The sense as classic batik motif is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦥꦫꦁ (parang, “batik pattern”, literally “cliff; knife, chopper, cleaver”), from Old Javanese paraṅ (“rock, crag”).

sl

(zoology) dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab).


parang

ms-noun

parang (Jawi spelling ڤارڠ, plural parang-parang, informal 1st possessive parangku, 2nd possessive parangmu, 3rd possessive parangnya)

ڤارڠ (Jawi)
parang-parang (plural)
parangku (first-person informal possessive)
parangmu (possessive second-person)
parangnya (possessive third-person)

Indonesian: parang

→ English: parang

→ Macanese: parám

→ Tagalog: paláng

a short, heavy, straight-edged knife or machete


pana

From Proto-Marquesic *pana, from Proto-Polynesian *fana, from Proto-Central Pacific *vana, from Proto-Oceanic *panaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq (compare with Malay panah), from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.


pana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq.


pana

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq, from Proto-Austronesian *panaq. Compare Malay panah.


pana

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *panaq.


cestus

With pasture slopes, and flocks just visible;
Then, further still, soft wavy wastes of forest,
In all the varied tints of sylvan verdure,
Descending to the plain; then, wide and boundless,
The plain itself, with towns and cultured tracts,
And its fair river gleaming in the light,
With all its sweepy windings, seen and lost,
And seen again, till through the pale grey tint
Of distant space, it seem'd a loosen'd cestus
From virgin's tunic blown; and still beyond,
The earth's extended vastness from the sight
Wore like the boundless ocean.

1826, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr, act 2:

(obsolete) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.


silencer

An attachment to a gun or an exhaust pipe that reduces the sound it emits


lingue

Inherited from Middle French leynge, lingue, from Middle Dutch *lenge.


fusta

Feminized counterpart to Spanish fuste. Compare Catalan fusta, Portuguese fusta.

light boat with one or two masts, often used for exploration


бомба

be-noun

бо́мба<,(ў)>

бо́мба • (bómba) f inan (genitive бо́мбы, nominative plural бо́мбы, genitive plural бомб or бо́мбаў)

бо́мба (canonical)
bómba (romanization)
бо́мбы (genitive)
бо́мбы (nominative plural)
бомб (genitive plural)
бо́мбаў (genitive plural)
бо́мба (nominative singular)
бо́мбы (nominative plural)
бо́мбы (genitive singular)
бомб (genitive plural)
бо́мбаў (genitive plural)
бо́мбе (dative singular)
бо́мбам (dative plural)
бо́мбу (accusative singular)
бо́мбы (accusative plural)
бо́мбай (instrumental singular)
бо́мбаю (instrumental singular)
бо́мбамі (instrumental plural)
бо́мбе (locative singular)
бо́мбах (locative plural)
бо́мбы (count-form plural)

be-ndecl

бо́мба<,(ў)>


бомба

bg-noun

бо́мба • (bómba) f (relational adjective бо́мбен, diminutive бо́мбичка)

бо́мба (canonical)
bómba (romanization)
бо́мбен (adjective relational)
бо́мбичка (diminutive)
бо́мба (indefinite singular)
бо́мби (indefinite plural)
бо́мбата (definite singular)
бо́мбите (definite plural)


бомба

bomba (romanization)
бомба (nominative singular)
бомбалар (nominative plural)
бомбаның (genitive singular)
бомбалардың (genitive plural)
бомбаға (dative singular)
бомбаларға (dative plural)
бомбаны (accusative singular)
бомбаларды (accusative plural)
бомбада (locative singular)
бомбаларда (locative plural)
бомбадан (ablative singular)
бомбалардан (ablative plural)
бомбамен (instrumental singular)
бомбалармен (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Russian бо́мба (bómba), from Polish bomba or German Bombe.


бомба

ru-noun+

бо́мба • (bómba) f inan (genitive бо́мбы, nominative plural бо́мбы, genitive plural бомб, relational adjective бо́мбовый, diminutive бо́мбочка)

бо́мба (canonical)
bómba (romanization)
бо́мбы (genitive)
бо́мбы (nominative plural)
бомб (genitive plural)
бо́мбовый (adjective relational)
бо́мбочка (diminutive)
бо́мба (nominative singular)
бо́мбы (nominative plural)
бо́мбы (genitive singular)
бо́мб (genitive plural)
бо́мбе (dative singular)
бо́мбам (dative plural)
бо́мбу (accusative singular)
бо́мбы (accusative plural)
бо́мбой (instrumental singular)
бо́мбою (instrumental singular)
бо́мбами (instrumental plural)
бо́мбе (prepositional singular)
бо́мбах (plural prepositional)
бо́мба (dated nominative singular)
бо́мбы (dated nominative plural)
бо́мбы (dated genitive singular)
бо́мбъ (dated genitive plural)
бо́мбѣ (dated dative singular)
бо́мбамъ (dated dative plural)
бо́мбу (accusative dated singular)
бо́мбы (accusative dated plural)
бо́мбой (dated instrumental singular)
бо́мбою (dated instrumental singular)
бо́мбами (dated instrumental plural)
бо́мбѣ (dated prepositional singular)
бо́мбахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: bomba

→ Bezhta: бомба (bomba)

→ Ingrian: bomba

→ Kazakh: бомба (bomba)

→ Kyrgyz: бомба (bomba)

→ Kildin Sami: помм (pomm)

→ Tajik: бомба (bomba)

→ Turkmen: bomba

→ Tuvan: бомба (bomba)

→ Uyghur: بومبا (bomba)

→ Uzbek: bomba

→ Yakut: бомба (bomba)

Inherited from Middle Russian бомба (bomba) (att. 1688), from Polish bomba (att. 1670), from German Bombe (early 17th c.), from Italian bomba, from bombo (“buzzing”), from Latin bombus, from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos), ultimately onomatopaeic.

inh+

фо́сфорная бо́мба


бомба

бо̑мба (canonical feminine)
bȏmba (romanization)
бо̑мба (nominative singular)
бомбе (nominative plural)
бомбе (genitive singular)
бо̑мба̄ (genitive plural)
бо̑мбӣ (genitive plural)
бомби (dative singular)
бомбама (dative plural)
бомбу (accusative singular)
бомбе (accusative plural)
бомбо (singular vocative)
бомбе (plural vocative)
бомби (locative singular)
бомбама (locative plural)
бомбом (instrumental singular)
бомбама (instrumental plural)

sh-decl-noun

бо̑мба̄ / бо̑мбӣ


бомба

head

бомба • (bomba) (Persian spelling بومبه or بامبه)

bomba (romanization)
spelling بومبه (Persian)
بامبه (Persian)
бомба
бомбаҳо (plural)
Term?
бомбаро (definite direct-object)
бомбаҳоро (definite direct-object plural)
ро (definite direct-object)
бомбаи (ezafe)
бомбаҳои (ezafe plural)
и (ezafe)
бомбае (relative)
бомбаеро (objective relative)
бомбаям (first-person possessive singular)
бомбаҳоям (first-person possessive singular)
ам (first-person possessive singular)
бомбаят (possessive second-person singular)
бомбаҳоят (possessive second-person singular)
ат (possessive second-person singular)
бомбаяш (possessive singular third-person)
бомбаҳояш (possessive singular third-person)
аш (possessive singular third-person)
бомбаямон (first-person plural possessive)
бомбаҳоямон (first-person plural possessive)
амон (first-person plural possessive)
бомбаятон (plural possessive second-person)
бомбаҳоятон (plural possessive second-person)
атон (plural possessive second-person)
бомбаяшон (plural possessive third-person)
бомбаҳояшон (plural possessive third-person)
ашон (plural possessive third-person)
бомбаямро (definite direct-object first-person possessive singular)
бомбаҳоямро (definite direct-object first-person possessive singular)
амро (definite direct-object first-person possessive singular)
бомбаятро (definite direct-object possessive second-person singular)
бомбаҳоятро (definite direct-object possessive second-person singular)
атро (definite direct-object possessive second-person singular)
бомбаяшро (definite direct-object possessive singular third-person)
бомбаҳояшро (definite direct-object possessive singular third-person)
ашро (definite direct-object possessive singular third-person)
бомбаямонро (definite direct-object first-person plural possessive)
бомбаҳоямонро (definite direct-object first-person plural possessive)
амонро (definite direct-object first-person plural possessive)
бомбаятонро (definite direct-object plural possessive second-person)
бомбаҳоятонро (definite direct-object plural possessive second-person)
атонро (definite direct-object plural possessive second-person)
бомбаяшонро (definite direct-object plural possessive third-person)
бомбаҳояшонро (definite direct-object plural possessive third-person)
ашонро (definite direct-object plural possessive third-person)

tg-infl-noun/link

бомбаҳоямонро

бомбаҳоятонро

бомбаҳояшонро

бомбаборон кардан

бомбаборон (bombaboron, “bombing, bombardment”)


бомба

uk-noun

бо́мба • (bómba) f inan (genitive бо́мби, nominative plural бо́мби, genitive plural бомб, relational adjective бо́мбовий)

бо́мба (canonical)
bómba (romanization)
бо́мби (genitive)
бо́мби (nominative plural)
бомб (genitive plural)
бо́мбовий (adjective relational)
бо́мба (nominative singular)
бо́мби (nominative plural)
бо́мби (genitive singular)
бомб (genitive plural)
бо́мбі (dative singular)
бо́мбам (dative plural)
бо́мбу (accusative singular)
бо́мби (accusative plural)
бо́мбою (instrumental singular)
бо́мбами (instrumental plural)
бо́мбі (locative singular)
бо́мбах (locative plural)
бо́мбо (singular vocative)
бо́мби (plural vocative)


бомба

водороднай бомба

бомба эстиитэ


chemical weapon

en-noun

chemical weapon (plural chemical weapons)

A noxious substance contained in some form of delivery system such as a shell or missile.


baston

fro-noun

baston oblique singular, m (oblique plural bastons, nominative singular bastons, nominative plural baston)

baston oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
bastons (oblique plural)
bastons (nominative singular)
baston (nominative plural)

French: bâton

desctree

→ Middle English: baston, bastun, bastune
English: baston
Scots: baston


baston

From Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin *basto, bastonis, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastō, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō).


battle axe

Another battle-ax, in the same collection.

1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page x:

An ancient military weapon, an axe designed for combat, including (in heraldry) when borne on arms as a mark of prowess.


harap

pl-noun

harap m inan (related adjective harapowy)

harapowy (adjective)
harap (nominative singular)
harapy (nominative plural)
harapa (genitive singular)
harapu (genitive singular)
harapów (genitive plural)
harapowi (dative singular)
harapom (dative plural)
harap (accusative singular)
harapy (accusative plural)
harapem (instrumental singular)
harapami (instrumental plural)
harapie (locative singular)
harapach (locative plural)
harapie (singular vocative)
harapy (plural vocative)


balta

balták (plural)
balta (nominative singular)
balták (nominative plural)
baltát (accusative singular)
baltákat (accusative plural)
baltának (dative singular)
baltáknak (dative plural)
baltával (instrumental singular)
baltákkal (instrumental plural)
baltáért (causal-final singular)
baltákért (causal-final plural)
baltává (singular translative)
baltákká (plural translative)
baltáig (singular terminative)
baltákig (plural terminative)
baltaként (essive-formal singular)
baltákként (essive-formal plural)
baltában (inessive singular)
baltákban (inessive plural)
baltán (singular superessive)
baltákon (plural superessive)
baltánál (adessive singular)
baltáknál (adessive plural)
baltába (illative singular)
baltákba (illative plural)
baltára (singular sublative)
baltákra (plural sublative)
baltához (allative singular)
baltákhoz (allative plural)
baltából (elative singular)
baltákból (elative plural)
baltáról (delative singular)
baltákról (delative plural)
baltától (ablative singular)
baltáktól (ablative plural)
baltáé (singular)
baltáké (plural)
baltáéi (singular)
baltákéi (plural)
baltám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
baltáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
baltád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
baltáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
baltája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
baltái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
baltánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
baltáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
baltátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
baltáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
baltájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
baltáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From a Turkic language, probably from Cuman, see Turkish below.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *paraćúš.


лак

lak (romanization)
лак (indefinite singular)
лакови (indefinite plural)
лакот (definite singular unspecified)
лаковите (definite plural unspecified)
лаков (definite proximal singular)
лаковиве (definite plural proximal)
лакон (definite distal singular)
лаковине (definite distal plural)
лаку (singular vocative)
лакови (plural vocative)
лака (count-form plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *lankás, from Proto-Indo-European *lenk- (“to bend”).


pommi

pommi (nominative singular)
pommit (nominative plural)
pommi (accusative nominative singular)
pommit (accusative nominative plural)
pommin (accusative genitive singular)
pommit (accusative genitive plural)
pommin (genitive singular)
pommien (genitive plural)
pommia (partitive singular)
pommeja (partitive plural)
pommissa (inessive singular)
pommeissa (inessive plural)
pommista (elative singular)
pommeista (elative plural)
pommiin (illative singular)
pommeihin (illative plural)
pommilla (adessive singular)
pommeilla (adessive plural)
pommilta (ablative singular)
pommeilta (ablative plural)
pommille (allative singular)
pommeille (allative plural)
pommina (essive singular)
pommeina (essive plural)
pommiksi (singular translative)
pommeiksi (plural translative)
pommitta (abessive singular)
pommeitta (abessive plural)
pommein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
pommini (nominative singular)
pommini (nominative plural)
pommini (accusative nominative singular)
pommini (accusative nominative plural)
pommini (accusative genitive singular)
pommini (accusative genitive plural)
pommini (genitive singular)
pommieni (genitive plural)
pommiani (partitive singular)
pommejani (partitive plural)
pommissani (inessive singular)
pommeissani (inessive plural)
pommistani (elative singular)
pommeistani (elative plural)
pommiini (illative singular)
pommeihini (illative plural)
pommillani (adessive singular)
pommeillani (adessive plural)
pommiltani (ablative singular)
pommeiltani (ablative plural)
pommilleni (allative singular)
pommeilleni (allative plural)
pomminani (essive singular)
pommeinani (essive plural)
pommikseni (singular translative)
pommeikseni (plural translative)
pommittani (abessive singular)
pommeittani (abessive plural)
pommeineni (comitative plural)
pommisi (nominative singular)
pommisi (nominative plural)
pommisi (accusative nominative singular)
pommisi (accusative nominative plural)
pommisi (accusative genitive singular)
pommisi (accusative genitive plural)
pommisi (genitive singular)
pommiesi (genitive plural)
pommiasi (partitive singular)
pommejasi (partitive plural)
pommissasi (inessive singular)
pommeissasi (inessive plural)
pommistasi (elative singular)
pommeistasi (elative plural)
pommiisi (illative singular)
pommeihisi (illative plural)
pommillasi (adessive singular)
pommeillasi (adessive plural)
pommiltasi (ablative singular)
pommeiltasi (ablative plural)
pommillesi (allative singular)
pommeillesi (allative plural)
pomminasi (essive singular)
pommeinasi (essive plural)
pommiksesi (singular translative)
pommeiksesi (plural translative)
pommittasi (abessive singular)
pommeittasi (abessive plural)
pommeinesi (comitative plural)
pommimme (nominative singular)
pommimme (nominative plural)
pommimme (accusative nominative singular)
pommimme (accusative nominative plural)
pommimme (accusative genitive singular)
pommimme (accusative genitive plural)
pommimme (genitive singular)
pommiemme (genitive plural)
pommiamme (partitive singular)
pommejamme (partitive plural)
pommissamme (inessive singular)
pommeissamme (inessive plural)
pommistamme (elative singular)
pommeistamme (elative plural)
pommiimme (illative singular)
pommeihimme (illative plural)
pommillamme (adessive singular)
pommeillamme (adessive plural)
pommiltamme (ablative singular)
pommeiltamme (ablative plural)
pommillemme (allative singular)
pommeillemme (allative plural)
pomminamme (essive singular)
pommeinamme (essive plural)
pommiksemme (singular translative)
pommeiksemme (plural translative)
pommittamme (abessive singular)
pommeittamme (abessive plural)
pommeinemme (comitative plural)
pomminne (nominative singular)
pomminne (nominative plural)
pomminne (accusative nominative singular)
pomminne (accusative nominative plural)
pomminne (accusative genitive singular)
pomminne (accusative genitive plural)
pomminne (genitive singular)
pommienne (genitive plural)
pommianne (partitive singular)
pommejanne (partitive plural)
pommissanne (inessive singular)
pommeissanne (inessive plural)
pommistanne (elative singular)
pommeistanne (elative plural)
pommiinne (illative singular)
pommeihinne (illative plural)
pommillanne (adessive singular)
pommeillanne (adessive plural)
pommiltanne (ablative singular)
pommeiltanne (ablative plural)
pommillenne (allative singular)
pommeillenne (allative plural)
pomminanne (essive singular)
pommeinanne (essive plural)
pommiksenne (singular translative)
pommeiksenne (plural translative)
pommittanne (abessive singular)
pommeittanne (abessive plural)
pommeinenne (comitative plural)
pomminsa (nominative singular)
pomminsa (nominative plural)
pomminsa (accusative nominative singular)
pomminsa (accusative nominative plural)
pomminsa (accusative genitive singular)
pomminsa (accusative genitive plural)
pomminsa (genitive singular)
pommiensa (genitive plural)
pommiaan (partitive singular)
pommiansa (partitive singular)
pommejaan (partitive plural)
pommejansa (partitive plural)
pommissaan (inessive singular)
pommissansa (inessive singular)
pommeissaan (inessive plural)
pommeissansa (inessive plural)
pommistaan (elative singular)
pommistansa (elative singular)
pommeistaan (elative plural)
pommeistansa (elative plural)
pommiinsa (illative singular)
pommeihinsa (illative plural)
pommillaan (adessive singular)
pommillansa (adessive singular)
pommeillaan (adessive plural)
pommeillansa (adessive plural)
pommiltaan (ablative singular)
pommiltansa (ablative singular)
pommeiltaan (ablative plural)
pommeiltansa (ablative plural)
pommilleen (allative singular)
pommillensa (allative singular)
pommeilleen (allative plural)
pommeillensa (allative plural)
pomminaan (essive singular)
pomminansa (essive singular)
pommeinaan (essive plural)
pommeinansa (essive plural)
pommikseen (singular translative)
pommiksensa (singular translative)
pommeikseen (plural translative)
pommeiksensa (plural translative)
pommittaan (abessive singular)
pommittansa (abessive singular)
pommeittaan (abessive plural)
pommeittansa (abessive plural)
pommeineen (comitative plural)
pommeinensa (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Swedish bomb, from French bombe.

Harva uskoo, että Washingtonin-vierailulta tulisi ”Nato-pommia” eli uutista, joka kertoisi Suomen mahdollisen Nato-jäsenyyden nytkähtäneen oleellisesti eteenpäin.

2022 March 4, Elina Väntönen, “Niinistö tapaa tänään Bidenin, ja se on itsessään merkittävä tuenosoitus – ja viesti Venäjälle”, in Helsingin Sanomat:

Few believe that the visit to Washington would yield the "NATO bombshell" - that is to say, news that Finland's NATO membership would have taken a decisive step forwards.

(figuratively) bombshell (a surprising or shocking piece of news or information)


kule

kule (nominative singular)
kule (nominative plural)
kule (genitive singular)
kulí (genitive plural)
kuli (dative singular)
kulím (dative plural)
kuli (accusative singular)
kule (accusative plural)
kule (singular vocative)
kule (plural vocative)
kuli (locative singular)
kulích (locative plural)
kulí (instrumental singular)
kulemi (instrumental plural)

German playing cards
German playing cards

(plural only) suit in German playing cards


kasza

kaszák (plural)
kasza (nominative singular)
kaszák (nominative plural)
kaszát (accusative singular)
kaszákat (accusative plural)
kaszának (dative singular)
kaszáknak (dative plural)
kaszával (instrumental singular)
kaszákkal (instrumental plural)
kaszáért (causal-final singular)
kaszákért (causal-final plural)
kaszává (singular translative)
kaszákká (plural translative)
kaszáig (singular terminative)
kaszákig (plural terminative)
kaszaként (essive-formal singular)
kaszákként (essive-formal plural)
kaszában (inessive singular)
kaszákban (inessive plural)
kaszán (singular superessive)
kaszákon (plural superessive)
kaszánál (adessive singular)
kaszáknál (adessive plural)
kaszába (illative singular)
kaszákba (illative plural)
kaszára (singular sublative)
kaszákra (plural sublative)
kaszához (allative singular)
kaszákhoz (allative plural)
kaszából (elative singular)
kaszákból (elative plural)
kaszáról (delative singular)
kaszákról (delative plural)
kaszától (ablative singular)
kaszáktól (ablative plural)
kaszáé (singular)
kaszáké (plural)
kaszáéi (singular)
kaszákéi (plural)
kaszám (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
kaszáim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
kaszád (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
kaszáid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
kaszája (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
kaszái (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
kaszánk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
kaszáink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
kaszátok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
kaszáitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
kaszájuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
kaszáik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From a Slavic language, probably via Slovak kosa. Compare Proto-Slavic *kosa.

scythe (an instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge)