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Maxim gun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
  2. 2
    A machine gun which derives after some manner from the patented gun mechanism of Sir Hiram Maxim
  3. 3
    A machine gun informal, obsolete
Noun
  1. 1
    an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel wordnet

Etymology

After the inventor, Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

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