"captive bolt pistol" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: captive bolt pistols [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} captive bolt pistol (plural captive bolt pistols)
  1. a device that renders animals unconscious prior to slaughter by impelling a metal bolt into its head Wikipedia link: en:captive bolt pistol Categories (topical): Firearms Translations (captive bolt pistol): boltpistol [common-gender] (Danish), pulttipistooli (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-captive_bolt_pistol-en-noun-gbSOxwdc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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