rim-fire

British  

adjective

1. (of a cartridge) having the primer in the rim of the base

2. (of a firearm) adapted for such cartridges

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Example Sentences

It is also made for rifled small-arms especially for rim-fire rifles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

While the rifles were center-fire, a great many of the cartridges were rim-fire, and consequently useless unless broken and the powder and ball rammed home as in the old muzzle-loaders.

From The Wilderness Trail by Williams, Frank

"You say, Mr. Hale, the prisoner told you the night you spent at his home that this rifle was rim-fire?"

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John

Also made to shoot .32 short rim-fire cartridges.

From The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco by Doughty, Francis Worcester

Or else, he could enumerate all the pistols of a certain type; say, all the Philadelphia Deringers, or all the Allen pepperboxes, or all the rim-fire Smith & Wesson tip-back types.

From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam