a gun or firearm.

A shooting weapon, a cannon or musket.

The discharge of ammunition from a firearm or (sometimes) other projectile weapon; shots, or discharges of missiles, collectively; (also occasionally…

(a) = firearm, n.; (b) a work of art in which fire is represented or (in later use also) utilized.

(a) a firearm; (b) an incendiary projectile.

a device employing gunpowder, a firearm.

A weapon from which a missile can be propelled at speed by means of an explosive charge; (in later use) esp. one that is small and portable, as a…

transferred. Applied humorously to a cannon or other firearm; in modern use, a particular kind of revolver. Cf. barker, n.1 Also attributive.

A firearm. rare.

A gun or (occasionally) other weapon used or able to be used decisively to settle a dispute.

a name said to have been given to a rifle or cannon by peoples who did not possess firearms.