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crossbow	a bow on a wooden stock. Crossbows shoot arrows when someone pulls a trigger.
machine gun	an automatic gun that fires bullets one right after the other as long as its trigger is pressed.
trigger	A trigger is the part of a gun that you pull to make it shoot. [2/3 definitions]

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