Skodan.
/ˈskəʊdə/, U.S. /ˈskoʊdə/ Used attributively and elliptically to designate guns manufactured in the factories established by Skoda.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 166/1 In the Hotchkiss and also in the Skoda systems the mechanism is of the vertical breech block type.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms Skoda Gun... Skoda Mortar.
1920 Blackwood's Mag. May 591/1 The regular army..had a variety of guns,..Austrian Skodas, French 75's, German and Turkish pieces.
1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. 78 Skoda mountain howitzers which had once been destined for the Hedjaz.
1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 402/1 The first Skoda machine gun appeared in 1888 and was a delayed-blowback weapon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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