rim-fire
Britishadjective
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(of a cartridge) having the primer in the rim of the base
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(of a firearm) adapted for such cartridges
Example Sentences
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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 Frank Williams
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 H. Beam Piper
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
Also made to shoot .32 short rim-fire cartridges.
From The Bradys After a Chinese Princess The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco by Francis Worcester Doughty
“Prob'ly they're center-fire ca'tridges for rim-fire guns, or vicy-versy.”
From The Wilderness Trail by Frank Williams
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