pinfire

词形变化

pinfires 复数 pinfires

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An obsolete kind of brass cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin which protrudes radially from just above the base of the cartridge.

    工程 政治 军事

    1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados "An early French make, I should say; one of Lefaucheux's probably," said Carrados. "You have removed the cartridges?" "Why, yes," admitted the sergeant, producing a matchbox from his pocket. "They're pin-fire, you see, and I'm not too fond of carrying a thing like that loaded in my pocket as I'm riding a young horse."

词源

From pin + fire.

来源：wiktionary