NEEDLE GUN

Definition: NEEDLE GUN

NEEDLE GUN

1. A firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Synonyms within Context: NEEDLE GUN

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arms	Small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, 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 , six-shooter, shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, KalashnikoVerb:
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: NEEDLE GUN

English words defined with "NEEDLE GUN": Center-fire cartridge, Chassepot. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NEEDLE GUN": AIRPLANE COVERER ♦ car-body-inspector helper, carpet cleaner ♦ dope-and-fabric worker, doper ♦ hand-tier, hat trimmer, hat-band attacher ♦ MATTRESS-SPRING ENCASER, MENDER, KNIT GOODS ♦ NEEDLE-FELT-MAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ PADDED-PRODUCTS FINISHER ♦ RUG CLEANER, HAND, rug renovator, rug scrubber, rug shampooer, rug washer ♦ specialty trimmer, spring encaser, spring setter, spring tacker, spring tier, spring upholsterer, STREETCAR-REPAIRER HELPER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEEDLE GUN

Domain	Title
Music	Needle Gun (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEEDLE GUN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
needle gun	31
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NEEDLE GUN

Language		Translations for "NEEDLE GUN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dyfek gjilpërës. (various references)

Bulgarian		пушка-иглянка. (various references)

Hungarian		gyútûs puska. (various references)

Manx		gun bwoalltane. (various references)

Pig Latin		eedlenay ungay.(various references)

Portuguese		juntar álcool a bebida (corkscrew). (various references)

Russian		игольчатое ружье (needle-gun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		puška sa iglom. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEEDLE GUN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-l-n-n-u"
	-3 letters: deluge, dengue, gulden, gunned, gunnel, legend, lunged, lungee, needle.
	-4 letters: elude, endue, gelee, glede, gleed, glued, ledge, luged, lunge, nudge, undee, unled.
	-5 letters: dele, dene, duel, dune, dung, edge, geed, geld, gene, genu, gled, glee, glen, glue, gude, lend, leud, lude, luge, lune, lung, need, nene, nude, unde.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-g-l-n-n-u"
	+4 letters: unenlightened.
	+5 letters: overindulgence.
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