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Maxim gun   /mˈæksəm gən/   Listen
Maxim gun

noun
1.
An obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel.





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"Maxim gun" Quotes from Famous Books



... got the chance of his life, The chance of earning glorious scars, And I picture him scouring a land of strife, Crouching over his handle-bars, His open exhaust, with its roar and stench, Like a Maxim gun in ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... MAXIM GUN, an automatic machine-gun invented by Hiram S. Maxim, an American, in 1884, capable of discharging 620 rifle cartridges per minute; the first shot is fired by hand, and the recoil is utilised to reload and fire the next, and so on. A cylinder of water keeps the barrel ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Maxim gun" :   machine gun


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