missile weapon
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North Korea said Wednesday it had tested a new lightweight multi-purpose missile launching system and a multiple tactical cruise missile weapon system the previous day.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
All the men carried knives; and the bolas, a missile weapon used in the capture of all kinds of game.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne
Their foot-ranks carry a missile weapon unknown to us, termed an arblast, or cross-bow.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
The direction of a musket, cannon, or any other fire-arm or missile weapon towards its object.—To take aim, directing the piece to the object.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
BOOMERANG, a missile weapon of the Australian aborigines and other peoples.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
