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soft-nose

soft-nose is the alternative form of softnose.

Meaning of softnose

Adjective

softnose (not comparable)

  1. Of a bullet: lacking a jacketed nose and thereby deforming greatly on impact, causing a large amount of damage; soft-nosed.
    • Questions that have arisen regarding the "stopping power" of the modern small-caliber bullet, particularly in view of the reduction of the caliber of the rifle in some services to 0.25 inch, or even less, have led to propositions to adopt soft-nose or "mushrooming" bullets, which will be deformed...1897, “Seacoast Guns”, in Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1896, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 21
    Synonyms:
    soft point

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Questions about soft-nose

What is soft-nose the alternative form of?
Soft-nose is the alternative form of softnose.

Words near soft-nose in the dictionary

  1. soft-liners
  2. soft-long
  3. soft-minded
  4. soft-mindedly
  5. soft-mindedness
  6. soft-nose
  7. soft-nosed
  8. soft-noses
  9. soft-on
  10. soft-ons
  11. soft-paste

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