| 单词 | quick-firer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquick-firer quick-firer n. [compare earlier quick-firing adj. at Compounds 2a and slightly later quick-fire adj.] now chiefly historical (a) a quick-firing gun; also figurative; (b) a device that enables a gun to be loaded quickly so that cartridges can be fired in rapid succession (rare). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > quick-firing quick-firer1885 QF1889 Quick Dick1918 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > quick-loading or -firing device quick-loader1882 firer1885 quick-firer1885 1885 Times 13 Aug. 10/1 Appended is a list of the exhibitors who have won the gold medal:..Royal Small Arms Factory, general excellence,..particularly as regards the quick-firer. 1887 Daily News 10 Mar. 2/5 The rifle and its quick-firer should be ordinarily used in this way. 1901 Spectator 12 Oct. 524/1 The newest 6 in. quick-firers are not officially known as quick-firers, because they have not a metal cartridge-case. 1956 C. Cockburn In Time of Trouble xvi. 205 The quick-firers of..controversy who..for obvious morale-building purposes prophesied that the current crisis..was the final crisis of American capitalism. 1988 D. E. Showalter in R. Haycock & K. Neilson Men, Machines, & War 144 It was a legitimate quickfirer, whose shield, trail spade, and recoil carriage put it in a category with the French seventy-five. < as lemmas |
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