Weapon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished.

II. Weapon ·noun Fig.: The means or instrument with which one contends against another; as, argument was his only weapon.

III. Weapon ·noun An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, ·etc.