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Meaning of बंदूक in English

  • of Gin
  • A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
  • A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
  • Violent blasts of wind.
  • To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
  • The male of the sparrow hawk.
  • A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
  • See under Gun.
  • The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.
  • Alt. of Gunny cloth
  • A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
  • The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
  • Act of firing a gun; a shot.
  • The distance to which shot can be thrown from a gun, so as to be effective; the reach or range of a gun.
  • Made by the shot of a gun: as. a gunshot wound.
  • One whose occupation is to make or repair small firearms; an armorer.
  • A stick to ram down the charge of a musket, etc.; a rammer or ramrod.
  • The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
  • The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull.

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