#weapon

• Weapon — A device, apparatus, tool, or instrument manufactured or structurally adapted to attack, injure, or destroy living beings, or to neutralize material objectives; a military branch or specialty within an army (e.g., infantry, artillery); (figurating) a means of ideological struggle, a strategic method, a powerful argument, or a resource used by a person to achieve a goal or defend themselves in a dispute.
• Armament — The totality of weapons, combat equipment, ammunition, and related technical devices supplied to an army, a military unit, or an individual defensive system. This structural assembly includes melee weapons, firearms, heavy machinery, and modern missile systems, being strictly regulated by national laws and international treaties on security and proliferation control.
• Armorer — A person who was formerly engaged in the manufacturing, sale, or maintenance of weapons or iron tools; a regional master gunsmith or specialized worker in an old arsenal or metallurgical workshop. The term reflects a historical technical specialization, found in administrative documents from past eras.
• Armorer — A regional historical term with multiple meanings: a craftsman engaged in manufacturing weapons, or a large cabinet specially designed for storing weapons; also, in ancient administration, it could designate an official responsible for guarding the arsenal or a court dignitary in charge of secondary military logistics.
• Armory — A historical and archaic term used to designate a weapons depot, a military storehouse, an arsenal, or a workshop specialized in manufacturing and repairing weaponry and combat gear. In the medieval organization of princely courts, the armărie represented an essential logistical space under the direct supervision of military officials, designed to ensure the secure storage of state defenses.
• Armory — An old, collective, or regional form derived from the sphere of the term 'armare' (outfitting/arming) or 'armură' (armor), used in the past to designate the totality of weapons equipping a military unit or a fortress; it can also appear as the articulated genitive-dative form of the archaic noun 'armărie' (armory or weapons workshop).
• Armed — Well-armed, equipped with weapons, or protected by defensive combat gear. This extremely rare regional adjective is derived from the noun 'armă' combined with the qualitative suffix '-os', used historically in specific local dialects to describe someone ready for battle.
• Armoury — An workshop, manufactory, factory, or establishment specialized in designing, forging, assembling, testing, or repairing firearms and defensive military gear. In old administrative documents, it described a garrison's official weapon storehouse or armory.
• Armoury — An unadapted etymological form, gallicism, or literary variant of 'armurărie'; a shop, workshop, or storehouse for weapons and defensive military gear. While the standardized Romanian form uses 'ă', this variant with 'e' occurs in 19th-century historical texts and commercial names.
• Armory — An establishment, depot, or factory intended for the construction, repair, maintenance, and storage of weaponry, ammunition, and military equipment; (figuratively) the totality of means, arguments, or resources available to someone to achieve a goal or conduct a dispute. In an international sports context, the term defines the structural identity of the English football club Arsenal FC, historically founded by the munitions workers of Woolwich.
• Artillery — A branch of the army equipped with large-caliber firearms (cannons, howitzers, launchers, rocket systems); the entirety of these weapons and their associated combat equipment. Tactically, it represents the science and technique of using heavy weaponry to execute long-range strikes in support of other troop types.
• Hurler — A person who throws or launches something with power; a mechanical device or primitive weapon used in the past for projecting stones, spears, or other projectiles at a distance. As an adjective, it describes an element or mechanism that has the property or function of violently propelling or hurling through space.
• Yataghan — An Oriental bladed weapon with the cutting edge on the concave side of its long, slightly curved blade, lacking a guard at the hilt, used in the past especially by janissaries and other troops of the Ottoman Empire. Its characteristic hilt often ends with two large ear-shaped protrusions, made of bone, ivory, or silver and decorated with precious stones in parade models.
• Nitrogen mustard — A toxic chemical compound from the nitrogen mustard class, derived from an aliphatic amine where hydrogen atoms are replaced by chloroethyl groups; an oily, persistent liquid substance with a strong blistering (vesicant) effect, devastating to tissues and the respiratory system, historically used as a chemical warfare agent.
• Bacteriological — Belonging to bacteriology, relating to the research of bacteria, or performed through methods specific to bacteriology. In medical and military contexts, the term describes laboratory analyses designed to identify microscopic pathogens (such as cultures and antibiograms) or characterizes biological weapons and risks based on the controlled dissemination of dangerous microbial agents.
• Archaic bayonet — A rare historical and regional phonetic variant of 'baionetă' (bayonet); a dagger-like steel weapon attached to the muzzle of a rifle for use in close-combat operations, frequently found in 19th-century war journals.
• Archaic bayonet — A rare historical and regional phonetic variant of 'baionetă' (bayonet); a dagger-like steel weapon attached to the muzzle of a rifle for use in close-combat operations, frequently found in 19th-century war journals.
• Archaic bayonet — A rare historical and regional phonetic variant of 'baionetă' (bayonet); a dagger-like steel weapon attached to the muzzle of a rifle for use in close-combat operations, frequently found in 19th-century war journals.
• Archaic bayonet — A rare historical and regional phonetic variant of 'baionetă' (bayonet), of Polish or Russian extraction, designating a dagger-like steel weapon attached to the muzzle of a rifle for close-combat operations.
• Bayonet — A short, sharp-bladed sidearm adapted to be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle or musket, designed for hand-to-hand combat; a bayonet. The term represents an old phonetic variant, historically used in military documents and chronicles during transitional periods.