different between ammo vs headstamp

English

Etymology

Clipping of ammunition +? -o.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ.mo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

ammo (usually uncountable, plural ammos)

1. (informal) ammunition.
   • 2011, Mark Brannon, ?Tom Hanrahan, Shooting Sporting Clays (page 39)

     As with handguns and rifles, some ammos are more accurate than others.

Verb

ammo (third-person singular simple present ammos, present participle ammoing, simple past and past participle ammoed)

1. (transitive, informal) To load up on ammunition.

Synonyms

• ammo up

Anagrams

• Mamo, MoMA, OMAM, mamo

Finnish

Etymology

Cognate to Ingrian ammillaa, Votic ammullaa, Estonian ammuli, Estonian ammu, Livonian amtlõ (“to yawn”), Skolt Sami ämmsõddâd (“to yawn”), Western Mari [script needed] (omeštaš, “to talk or move while in sleep or to talk unclearly”), Selkup [script needed] (?mmu-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”), Kamassian [script needed] (a’moi-, “yawnable, something that makes one to yawn”)

Noun

ammo

1. (dialectal, rare) something that widens on a mouth section, like a mouth or a cavity

Declension

Derived terms

References

• ammuli in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, ?ISBN
• Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, ?ISBN
• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

English

Etymology

head +? stamp

Noun

headstamp (plural headstamps)

1. (military, firearms) The identification marking on the base (bottom) of a cartridge casing.

   2009 Chivers, C.J. (The New York Times), Is U.S. Ammo going to Taliban?; run in Austin American-Statesman, May 20, 2009, p A-1:

   • Photographs were taken of the weapons' serial numbers and [of the] markings on the bottoms of the cartridge casings, known as headstamps, which can reveal where and when ammunition was made.

Related terms

• ammo, ammunition
• bullet, round

• breechloading
• cartridge, case, shell
• Taliban

Anagrams

• Hampstead