What is "unprimed"

Usage examples of "unprimed".

Till now they had marched with their guns unprimed in case a stumbling man set off a cartridge and so alerted the enemy.

Starbuck slapped the unprimed gun down and made the Lieutenant repeat the orders he had been given.

Mildred took the grenade from her pocket, unwrapped the tape holding the arming lever in place, then stood and threw the unprimed military charge.

Then the unprimed gren fell to the ground from his numb fingers, useless and inert.

This something was a sight more aggressive than his other weapon, poor thing, that bobbed about uncharged, unprimed, unsharpened.

On the easel a large unprimed canvas rested, somewhat unevenly due to the cant of a floor slanted enough that you could drop a marble in the kitchen and watch it roll slowly but inexorably to settle in the left-hand comer of the living room.

Kowalski were squatting on the floor among a pile of rifles, machine guns and unprimed hand grenades.

Everywhere, there was the smell of glue and unprimed wood, of sandpaper dust and paint.