a weapon that fires a destructive beam of energy
The green light-beam weapons were merely another application of the same principle…. The light-beams were swift and violent in their action.]
We could see an officer inside, checking the racks of beam-weapons.
Earth could use your great science… And your marvellous anti-gravity ships and beam-weapon, in the war! If we had your help, we would win!
They have threatened to begin the systematic destruction of our cities by means of the beam weapon with which their ships are equipped.
The stranger…had flashed his beam weapon upon him and cut him down.
Why wasn’t it firing? As if to answer his thought the flare of a beam-weapon struck out from the launch.
Curt was standing naked upon the floor, a beam weapon in his hand.
Gar has built a diffuser—a mob that projects a defensive field that spreads out the energy from beam weapons.
antedating 1936
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