A small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot.

Roget 274: velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness etc. adj.; rapidity, eagle speed; expedition etc. (activity) 682; pernicity^†; acceleration; haste etc. 684.    spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate etc. adj.; rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight.    lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum [Lat.], quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.    eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe, squirrel, camel bird, chickaree^†, chipmunk, hackee [U.S.], ostrich, scorcher [Slang].    Mercury, Ariel^†, Camilla^†, Harlequin.    [Measurement of velocity] log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer.    ... show more

Roget 727: arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament, armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor etc. (defense) 717; armory etc. (store) 636; apparatus belli [Lat.].    ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter" [Henry IV]; dumdum bullet.    explosive; gunpowder, guncotton; mercury fulminate; picrates; pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN.    high explosive; trinitrotoluene, TNT; dynamite, melinite^†, cordite, lyddite, plastic explosive, plastique; pyroxyline^†.    [knives and swords: list] sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion^†, scimitar, cimeter^†, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive^†, glave^†, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga^†, baselard^†, Lochaber ax, skean dhu^†, creese^†, kris, dagger, dirk, banger^†, poniard, stiletto, stylet^†, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme^†, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife^†; ataghan^†, attaghan^†, yataghan^†; yatacban^†; assagai, assegai^†; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel.    club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy^†.    gun, piece [Fr.]; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece [Fr.], mortar, howitzer, carronade^†, culverin^†, basilisk; falconet, jingal^†, swivel, pederero^†, bouche a feu [Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun^†, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom^†; ten pounder.    small arms; musket, musketry, firelock^†, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil^†, caliver^†, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon^†, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss^†, arquebus, haguebut^†; pistol, postolet^†; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle; needle gun, chassepot^†; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol; escopet^†, escopette^†, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut^†, shooter, shooting iron [U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun; Uzzi, assault rifle, Kalashnikov.    bow, crossbow, balister^†, catapult, sling; battering ram etc. (impulse) 276; gunnery; ballistics etc. (propulsion) 284.    missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot^†, langrage shot^†, round shot, chain shot; balista^†, ballista^†, slung shot, trebucbet^†, trebucket^†; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve^†, congreve rocket^†; shrapnel, mitraille [Fr.]; levin bolt^†, levin brand^†; thunderbolt.    pike, lance, spear, spontoon^†, javelin, dart, jereed^†, jerid^†, arrow, reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear^†, oxgoad^†, weet-weet, wommerah^†; cattle prod; chemical mace.    ... show more

Polish: strzałka

A tapered tuck made in dressmaking.

A sudden quick movement.

synonym: flit.

Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.

synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter.

Roget 274: move quickly, trip, fisk^†; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle^†; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush etc. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.    hurry etc. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.    keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip etc. 303; outmarch^†.    ... show more

Run or move very quickly or hastily.

synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot.

Roget 284: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.    dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate^†; fulminate, bolt, drive, sling, pitchfork.    send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release, send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.    put in motion, set in motion; set agoing^†, start; give a start, give an impulse to; impel etc. 276; trundle etc. (set in rotation) 312; expel etc. 297.    carry one off one's legs; put to flight.    ... show more

Dutch: afschieten, flitsen, schieten

Move with sudden speed.