From the verb. Made fast, bound, closed, connected, united, with (or as with) a chain; fettered.

Objective, with agent-nouns, as steel-erector, steel-maker, steel-worker; with verbal nouns and participial adjectives, as steel-making, steel-pie…

Of bullets: see chaw, v. 1b.

Of a projectile: having projecting studs which fit into corresponding grooves in the bore of a firearm.

designating a bullet whose jacket does not fully cover its tip, exposing the soft lead inside so that the bullet will expand on impact; = soft-point…

said of a bullet with a hollow in the point to ensure expansion of the projectile on impact.

Of a bullet: expanded and flattened from impact.

= hollow-fronted adj.

Used attributively to designate a type of cone-shaped bullet with a sharp-pointed end, originally produced for the German infantry.

= hollow-fronted adj.