"firing pin" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: firing pins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} firing pin (plural firing pins)
  1. (firearms) the part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer to ignite the gunpowder. Wikipedia link: firing pin Categories (topical): Firearms, Weapons Translations (part of the firing mechanism): ударник (udarnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 擊針 (Chinese Mandarin), 击针 (jīzhēn) (Chinese Mandarin), 撞針 (Chinese Mandarin), 撞针 (zhuàngzhēn) (Chinese Mandarin), zápalník [masculine] (Czech), slagstift [common-gender] (Danish), slagpin [masculine] (Dutch), iskuri (Finnish), nallipiikki (Finnish), Schlagbolzen [masculine] (German), percussore [masculine] (Italian), 撃針 (gekishin) (Japanese), уда́рник (udárnik) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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