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Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Volley :: Volley (n.) A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms..

Shot :: Shot (n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive..

Missile :: Missile (n.) A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet..

Scorpion :: Scorpion (n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot..

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides..

Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile..

Random :: Random (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball..

Arrow :: Arrow (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow..

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object..

Mark :: Mark (n.) That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach.

Projectile :: Projectile (n.) A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm..

Dart :: Dart (v. t.) To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch..

Pelt :: Pelt (v. i.) To throw missiles.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object..

Bolas :: Bolas (n. sing. & pl.) A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal..

Ballistics :: Ballistics (n.) The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

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