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plural missiles
Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet. quotations examples
Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns[sic – meaning crowds], but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.
Paragraph 24, R v Blackshaw (2012) WLR 1126
(military) A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
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