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Definition of Projectile

Proboscis
Proboscis
  PROJECTILE   noun
The final arbiter in international disputes.  Formerly these disputes were settled by physical contact of the disputants, with such simple arguments as the rudimentary logic of the times could supply -- the sword, the spear, and so forth.  With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.  Its capital defect is that it requires personal attendance at the point of propulsion.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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