flechette
1
9.9
- noun
- /fləˈʃɛt/
- Specialized
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flecheta
- I thought of my warren rooms at home, a thousand kilometers away, of how worried my folks might be, and of how they would take it if I died out in the thin air, or if some Statist thug pierced my young frame with a flechette...
- fire a flechette
Examples
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I just bought an Ithaca Tactical 12 GA, 20? (8rd mag) and am stocking up on Flechette ammo by the hundreds.
Blog text (29) -
"He doesn't seem to want to shoot." "Not with flechettes, sure enough," Sean said.
Fiction book (1993) -
It became an open rebellion until the third guard pulled a flechette from his pack.
Fiction book (1993) -
Flechette grenades.
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There are many future gizmos and weapons like wingsuits and flechette guns with exploding rounds.
Blog text (31) -
The picket raised his rifle, a long-barreled, slender automatic flechette.
Fiction book (1993) -
They're firing .20 millimeter caseless flechette rounds at 300 meters.
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And now my daddy has to ride out and maybe take a splash of flechettes in his belly, " instead of ticketing speeders along the state road. " " He ain't my Wild Bob, " I said.
Fiction book (1998) -
The soldiers used a rifle that shot flechette rounds for increased accuracy and penetration.
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During the operation, the team was equipped with flechette darts designed to incapacitate targets quickly.
Synonyms
140
1.1
A small pointed object you throw at a target
2
8.6
A small round piece of lead that a musket fires
A piece of metal fired from a rifle, originally round but later long
A solid metal ball used in cannons in the past
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word flechette comes from the French flèche, meaning 'arrow', plus the little ending -ette, meaning 'small'. So a flechette is literally a 'small arrow', which helps explain why the word now means a tiny, pointed metal dart used as a projectile.