repeating firearm

1. 1.

   a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading

   Synonymsrepeater

   Broaderfirearm

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Questions about repeating firearm

What does repeating firearm mean?

repeating firearm means "a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading".

What is another word for repeating firearm?

Close synonyms include repeater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is repeating firearm a common word?

repeating firearm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.