Crossword-Solution: PROJECTILE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Projectile | a. | Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force. |
| Projectile | a. | Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. |
| Projectile | n. | A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm. |
| Projectile | n. | A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PROJECTILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia | 1 answer |
| Bullet, shell or rocket. | 1 answer |
| Object launched through the air, often from a weapon | 1 answer |
| A missile fired at a target | 1 answer |
| Spitball, e.g. | 2 answers |
| a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | 2 answers |
| MACH number (pert. to) | 3 answers |
| projector | 3 answers |
| Impelling | 6 answers |
| Missile weapon. | 7 answers |
| CANTILEVER ___ | 9 answers |
| Pellet | 13 answers |
| cannonball | 15 answers |
| BULLET ___ | 22 answers |
| Dart | 36 answers |
| Arrow. | 36 answers |
| Rocket | 37 answers |
| Missile ___ | 38 answers |
| ammunition | 43 answers |
| Impel | 64 answers |
| shell | 67 answers |
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Sentences with PROJECTILE (5)
One may picture the orderly expectation, the officers alert and watchful, the gunners ready, the ammunition piled to hand, the limber gunners with their horses and waggons, the groups of civilian spectators standing as near as they were permitted, the evening stillness, the ambulances and hospital tents with the burned and wounded from Weybridge; then the dull resonance of the shots the Martians fired, and the clumsy projectile whirling over the trees and houses and smashing amid the neighbouring fields.
Thurid was deterred by no such scruples; and though it must have been difficult for him to believe that it was really I who followed them, he could not very well doubt the witness of his own eyes; and so he trained their stern gun upon me with his own hands, and an instant later an explosive radium projectile whizzed perilously close above my deck.
The projectile grazed the flier’s side, the opaque coating breaking sufficiently to permit daylight to strike in upon the powder phial within the bullet’s nose.
Cruncher was out of spirits, and out of temper, and kept an iron pot-lid by him as a projectile for the correction of Mrs.
This precious weapon of American origin could throw with ease a conical projectile of nine pounds to a mean distance of ten miles.
Quotes with PROJECTILE (3)
Bombs Away!" he yelled, swooping low over Strega Schloss. He saw little figures on the ground fleeing from the large green projectile that was speeding their way. "And a direct hit, if I'm not mistaken," he observed to himself. With a tremendous slapping sound, Ffup's digestive overload landed on a human target. There was a scream, a ghastly choking sound, and then silence.
Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on thereabouts. Her ensign dropped limp like a rag; the muzzles of the long six-inch guns stuck out all over the low hull; the greasy, slimy swell swung her up lazily and let her down, swaying her thin masts. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing i…
He turned to Harley, the oddly muscular eight-year-old son of Hephaestus. "Want to come with? I might need help with the projector.""A projectile! Yes!" Harley pumped his
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1952–2018).