"priming wire" meaning in English

See priming wire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: priming wires [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} priming wire (plural priming wires)
  1. (firearms) A pointed wire used to pierce a cartridge before priming it by penetrating the vent of a firearm. Categories (topical): Firearms

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "priming wires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "priming wire (plural priming wires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Firearms",
          "orig": "en:Firearms",
          "parents": [
            "Weapons",
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pointed wire used to pierce a cartridge before priming it by penetrating the vent of a firearm."
      ],
      "id": "en-priming_wire-en-noun-7LemFgfI",
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "pointed",
          "pointed"
        ],
        [
          "wire",
          "wire"
        ],
        [
          "pierce",
          "pierce"
        ],
        [
          "cartridge",
          "cartridge"
        ],
        [
          "priming",
          "prime"
        ],
        [
          "penetrating",
          "penetrate"
        ],
        [
          "vent",
          "vent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) A pointed wire used to pierce a cartridge before priming it by penetrating the vent of a firearm."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "priming wire"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "priming wires",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "priming wire (plural priming wires)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Firearms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pointed wire used to pierce a cartridge before priming it by penetrating the vent of a firearm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "firearm",
          "firearm"
        ],
        [
          "pointed",
          "pointed"
        ],
        [
          "wire",
          "wire"
        ],
        [
          "pierce",
          "pierce"
        ],
        [
          "cartridge",
          "cartridge"
        ],
        [
          "priming",
          "prime"
        ],
        [
          "penetrating",
          "penetrate"
        ],
        [
          "vent",
          "vent"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(firearms) A pointed wire used to pierce a cartridge before priming it by penetrating the vent of a firearm."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "firearms",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "priming wire"
}

Download raw JSONL data for priming wire meaning in English (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.