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Spandau|ˈspændaʊ|
Also spandau.
[f. Spandau, name of a district of (West) Berlin.]
a. A German machine-gun used during the war of 1914–18 (see quot. 1966).
b. Applied to other machine-guns of German design, esp. the MG34 and MG42 of the war of 1939–45. Freq. attrib. as Spandau (machine) gun.
a1918J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in Royal Flying Corps (1919) v. xii. 241, I distinctly noticed the red-yellow flashes from his parallel Spandau guns. 1929E. W. Springs Above Bright Blue Sky 221 He was suddenly cold as he awaited the crack of the spandaus. 1938G. S. Hutchinson Machine Guns xii. 333 The British were armed with Vickers, the Germans with Spandaus. 1944K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) iv. 29 In their pit lay a Spandau machine-gun. 1966T. R. Funderburk Fighters 27 The Maxim gun was manufactured in England..as a Vickers gun. The same gun was manufactured under license by the German Weapons and Munitions Factory, a state arsenal at Spandau, Berlin, and was known as a Spandau gun. A light version..was developed by the Germans for the use of aerial gunners and known as a Parabellum. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vi. 97 Vitconne is crouched behind a Spandau lent to him by a friendly German officer. 1971F. W. A. Hobart Pictorial Hist. Machine Gun 228 (caption) First German Airborne Corps defending Cassino... The MG-42 was a very effective dual purpose machine gun. The Germans used it a lot on a tripod to produce fixed line fire. The British troops called it the ‘Spandau’. |