HEAVY WEAPON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heavy weapon mean? 

• HEAVY WEAPON (noun)
  The noun HEAVY WEAPON has 1 sense:

1. large but transportable armament

  Familiarity information: HEAVY WEAPON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVY WEAPON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large but transportable armament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

artillery; gun; heavy weapon; ordnance

Hypernyms ("heavy weapon" is a kind of...):

armament (weaponry used by military or naval force)

Meronyms (parts of "heavy weapon"):

gunstock; stock (the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heavy weapon"):

cannon (a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels)

field artillery; field gun (movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops))

four-pounder (an artillery gun that throws a shot weighing four pounds)

Holonyms ("heavy weapon" is a part of...):

battery (a collection of related things intended for use together)

 Context examples 

Let me pass, I say!’ He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the window, cut at me with his heavy weapon.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His head had been shattered by a savage blow from some heavy weapon, and he was wounded on the thigh, where there was a long, clean cut, inflicted evidently by some very sharp instrument.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)