Word.ws English Dictionary

rimfires

rimfires is the plural of rimfire.

Meaning of rimfire

Noun

rimfire (plural rimfires)

  1. A type of firearm cartridge where the primer is in the back rim, rather than a central primer cap. They are cheap to produce but cannot be reloaded with powder.

Questions about rimfires

What is rimfires the plural of?
Rimfires is the plural of rimfire.

Words near rimfires in the dictionary

  1. rimester
  2. rimesters
  3. rimeth
  4. rimexolone
  5. rimfire
  6. rimfires
  7. rimic
  8. rimier
  9. rimiest
  10. rimiform
  11. riminess

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rimfires (page history and authors); rimfire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rimfires.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rimfires. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.