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pinfires

pinfires is the plural of pinfire.

Meaning of pinfire

Noun

pinfire (plural pinfires)

  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.
    • "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...1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados

Questions about pinfires

What is pinfires the plural of?
Pinfires is the plural of pinfire.

Words near pinfires in the dictionary

  1. pinfeeds
  2. Pinfield
  3. Pinfields
  4. pinfinger
  5. pinfire
  6. pinfires
  7. pinfish
  8. pinfishes
  9. pinfold
  10. pinfolded
  11. pinfolding

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