rim-fire

adjective

You say, Mr. Hale, the prisoner told you the night you spent at his home that this rifle was rim-fire?

In rim-fire cartridges the .22-calibre conical-ball cartridge is used in considerable quantity.

The chief faults of the rim-fire cartridges are danger and unreliability caused by the action of heat on the lubricant.

This fact well illustrates the greater danger in handling rim-fire over centre-fire cartridges.

Prob'ly they're center-fire ca'tridges for rim-fire guns, or vicy-versy.

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