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The open discharging end of a gun
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muzzle
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The muzzle of a firearm is the end of the barrel from which the projectile will exit. Precise machining of the muzzle is crucial to accuracy, because it is the last point of contact between the barrel and the projectile. If gaps exist between the muzzle ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout 2 The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech. 3 A device used to prevent animal from ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muzzle \Muz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muzzled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Muzzling .] [F. museler.] To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action; as, the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "device put over an animal's mouth to stop it from biting, eating, or rooting," from Old French musel "muzzle," also "snout, nose" (12c., Modern French museau ), from muse "muzzle," from Gallo-Roman *musa "snout" (source also of Provençal mus ...
Usage examples of muzzle.
The very sight of the awesome Forest aborigines, with their fanged muzzles agape and their taloned hands hovering near their weapons, was enough to convert the dance-bone cheaters to instant integrity.
Banish came closer until he was standing right in front of Abies, the muzzle of the .
One swung the bell-like muzzle of his balister toward Pandaras, and then there was a wave of earth and fire which tore the world away.
Each had a barbette with a raised edge in the center and the stubby muzzle of a heavy fortress howitzer protruding from it.
With a gesture of protestation the Basha waved one of the hands on which his dusky muzzle had rested.
The girl stumbled over to the bar and leaned toward Bosco, who stuck the muzzle of his gun against her throat and pushed her back.
He took three or four stalk-steps toward the Buick, never coming out of that hunched-over, cramped-up, taking-a-crap stoop, all the time with his muzzle pointing at the sky.
He raised the shotgun and put the strip of metal against the seam, where the lock entered the frame, the muzzle of the shotgun exactly three inches now from the dead bolt, and looked over his shoulder at Burdon and Karen.
A set of templates for verifying the shape of lock-lugs, the angle of the rear sight mass, the curve between the base-line and the front of rear sight mass, that at the end of the cascabel, the bevel of the breeching-hole, the opening of the cascabel, and the shape of the muzzle swell.
It recoiled freely against the thrust of ions accelerated to light speed, tumbling muzzle over cascabel to meet the shock wave plasma-driven in the opposite direction.
Each of the now newly black-painted monsters was eight and a half feet long from muzzle to cascabel and together with its carriage weighed two tons.
Surely mortal men must break under such punishment, yet they came on, clambering over the torn and twitching corpses of their comrades, their multi-coloured jib has plastered with reeking black mud, never wavering, each man trying to fight his way to the front rank of the attack, scornful of death, eager to seek it out in the smoking muzzles of the guns.
Quailing as The Shadow advanced, Cokey sagged against the door, the gun muzzle nearly pressing squarely between his eyes.
At this moment, Jerry, who had completely forgotten Neem the dalf, felt a wet muzzle pressed against his arm.
Beside those fiery eyes appeared the muzzle of an automatic, trained for the darkish men who were filing out through the rear door.