Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Arms

Nouns
  • arm, arms
  • weapon, deadly weapon
  • armament, armaments, armature
  • panoply, stand of arms
  • armor etc. (defense) Defense
  • armory etc. (store) Store
  • powder, powder and shot
  • cartridge
  • ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball
  • villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]
  • dumdum bullet. explosive
  • gunpowder, guncotton
  • mercury fulminate
  • picrates
  • pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN. high explosive
  • trinitrotoluene, TNT
  • dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique
  • pyroxyline. [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet
  • sword-bayonet, sword-stick
  • side arms, foil, blade, steel
  • ax, bill
  • pole-ax, battle-ax
  • gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife
  • ataghan, attaghan, yataghan
  • yatacban
  • assagai, assegai
  • good sword, trusty sword, naked sword
  • cold steel. club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig
  • hand staff, quarter staff
  • bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster
  • billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy. gun
  • firearms
  • artillery, ordnance
  • siege train, battering train
  • park, battery
  • cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk
  • falconet, jingal, swivel, pederero
  • petard, torpedo
  • infernal machine
  • smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun
  • pompom
  • ten pounder. small arms
  • musket, musketry, firelock, rifle, fusil, caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss, arquebus, haguebut
  • pistol, postolet
  • petronel
  • small bore
  • breach-loader, muzzle-loader
  • revolver, repeater
  • Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle
  • needle gun, chassepot
  • wind gun, air gun
  • automatic gun, automatic pistol
  • escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock
  • hackbut, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun
  • Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov. bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling
  • battering ram etc. (impulse) Impulse
  • gunnery
  • ballistics etc. (propulsion) [Motion given to an object situated in front.] Propulsion. missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball
  • grape
  • grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain shot
  • balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket
  • bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket
  • congreve, congreve rocket
  • shrapnel
  • levin bolt, levin brand
  • thunderbolt. pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff
  • eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet, wommerah
  • cattle prod
  • chemical mace.
Phrases
  • en flute