Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Firing pin

Firing pin

In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and explodes it.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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