单词 | maxim machine-gun |
释义 | > as lemmasMaxim machine-gun 1. attributive. Designating a recoil-operated machine-gun, having an outer casing around the single barrel filled with water to keep it cool, and fired from a tripod or other mount; esp. in Maxim gun, Maxim machine-gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > types of mitrailleuse1867 mitrailleur1869 Gatling gun1870 light machine gun1883 Gardner1884 Maxim1884 volley gun1884 Nordenfelt1885 Maxim1888 camel-gun1891 Maxim–Nordenfeldt gun1898 pom-pom1899 bomb Maxim1900 Lewis (machine) gun1913 Spandau guna1918 Vickers1917 LMG1922 Spandau1929 Bren1937 1884 Engineering News 6 Dec. 268/1 (heading) The Maxim machine gun. 1885 Nature 5 Mar. 414/2 The Maxim Gun. 1885 Nature 5 Mar. 415 Fig. 1—Maxim Mitrailleuse. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 12 Many a doughty wight..Whose typewriter, like any maxim-gun Had crackled deadly insults at ‘the Hun’. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 688/2 The Maxim machine guns, later often known as Vickers weapons, were used throughout the world well into the 1960s. 1992 F. McLynn Hearts of Darkness i. iv. 104 Stanley used firepower to overawe the hostile tribes he met, this time wheeling the very latest item in military technology, the Maxim gun, into action. < as lemmas |
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