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Definition of Heavy weapon
1. Noun. Large but transportable armament.
Generic synonyms: Armament
Specialized synonyms: Cannon, Field Artillery, Field Gun, Four-pounder
Terms within: Gunstock, Stock
Group relationships: Battery
Derivative terms: Gun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heavy Weapon
Literary usage of Heavy weapon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World by John George Wood (1882)
"It is a heavy weapon, its whole weight being a little more than seven pounds,
and is so ill-balanced and so unwieldy, that, unless its use were known, ..."
2. The Anglo-Saxon Weapon Names Treated Archæologically and Etymologically by May Lansfield Keller (1906)
"Beside this heavy weapon there must have been a lighter gar, inasmuch as the word
is frequently employed to translate ..."
3. Anglistische Forschungen (1906)
"Beside this heavy weapon there must have been a lighter gar, inasmuch as the word
is frequently employed to translate M.-Lat. spicula a very light kind of ..."
4. Cooper's Works by James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant (1855)
"The cow-herd had provided himself with a heavy weapon that his father had often
... .At the same moment Gottlob cast his heavy weapon from his shoulder, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"1), the bustard sword (a heavy weapon, which, however, might l>e used with one
hand), and the ordinary single-handed sword. Kach type was made with double ..."
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