pinfire (English, noun)
expansion: pinfire (plural pinfires)
Senses:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: pinfires
tags: plural