Widowmaker

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Widowmaker can refer to:

Names or titles in literature, film, and music:

• K-19: The Widowmaker A movie about the K-19 submarine.
• "The Widow Maker", a song on Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters album, which is about the F-104.
• Widowmaker (band), a 1970s rock band.
• "Widowmaker", a song by Pantera from their 1983 album Metal Magic.
• An episode of American Dad!

Nicknames or fictional characters:

• The Sword of Khaine in the Warhammer gaming universe.
• Widowmaker (comics), an assassin from the comic book series Noble Causes.
• The Widowmaker, the Dire Wolf OmniMech piloted by Khan Natasha Kerensky in the BattleTech/MechWarrior Universe.
• "The Widowmaker" is an elite mercenary starfighter pilot and antagonist appearing in the Sony PlayStation video game Colony Wars: Vengeance.
• Widow Maker, the name of Pecos Bill's horse.

Vehicles and weaponry(usually from their dangerous handling characteristics):

• The Luftwaffe nickname (in German) for the F-104 Starfighter warplane.
• The Lead Round Nose (LRN) version of .38 special ammunition.
• The B-26 medium bomber in WWII.
• The H3 Kawasaki triple motorbike.

Others:

• A common nickname for the Cape Buffalo
• Widow maker, the nickname for a left anterior descending artery stenosis.
• In forestry, a widow maker is any loose overhead debris such as limbs or tree tops that may fall at any time.
• A right-hand roundhouse punch made famous in late 1996 by Craig Harrison.
• A set of squats with 20 repetitions.
• The ghost town of Delamar, NV.
• "The Widowmaker", a former gimmick of former professional wrestler Barry Windham.

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In mining it represents a device to drill upwards. It worked very much like the Leyner drill. It was called by various names, depending on which part of the country one comes from. In Nevada it was called a "wiggle tailed stoper." In Montana it was called a "buzzy" and in Arizona a "widow maker." Hence, one could tell where a miner came from by the name he gave to this drill. The term widowmaker was also used by cornish miners.