launcher

[ lawn-cher, lahn- ]

noun

1. a person or thing that launches. launch.
2. a structural device designed to support and hold a missile in position for firing.

ˈlauncher

/ ˈlɔːntʃə /

noun

1. any installation, vehicle, or other device for launching rockets, missiles, or other projectiles

Word History and Origins

Origin of launcher¹

First recorded in 1815–25; launch ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

The flight time, as well as footage of the truck-mounted launchers believed to fire the missiles, come from official North Korean releases.

From Popular-Science

Its radars still spin, its small body rocks gently with the waves, and at a remote signal, a missile launcher stirs from inside a nondescript container.

From Popular-Science

The Drone 40 can be both hand-tossed, as in the video below, or it can be fired as a grenade from a launcher.

From Popular-Science

On December 9, 2020, Airbus revealed a prototype of an airborne launcher that is designed to carefully release uncrewed aerial vehicles, or drones, from the loading ramp of a cargo aircraft into the sky while in flight.

From Popular-Science

One of the big motivations for the remaster is “unifying” the three games, BioWare said, including quite literally by allowing players to access all three games in a single launcher or menu screen.

From Washington Post

It was lunchtime when a tracked launcher with four SA-11 surface-to-air missiles rolled into town and parked on Karapetyan Street.

From The Daily Beast

She said her husband showed her a photograph of a Buk launcher afterwards and she realised that was indeed what she had seen.

From The Daily Beast

Now we have the route of the Buk Missile Launcher, we can also look at other information related where it was on the day.

From The Daily Beast

A Grad is a multiple rocket launcher designed to devastate a defined but extensive area.

From The Daily Beast

The robot is armed with a light machine gun and automatic grenade launcher.

From The Daily Beast

While they were assembling the sunbreak, Haines and Boulton unloaded a portable antitank rocket launcher.

From Project Gutenberg

But though Haines sat with his finger on the launcher button, no aircraft rose to meet them from the city below.

From Project Gutenberg

Burl and Haines, at the main entry port, unlimbered the long rocket launcher that had been set up in the passageway.

From Project Gutenberg

He slid the rocket shell into the launcher, Burl sighted, and then Haines pressed the trigger.

From Project Gutenberg

Haines and his crew loaded the bulky H-bomb into the main launcher in the tail of the ship.

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