Spandaun.
/ˈspandaʊ/, /ˈʃpandaʊ/, U.S. /ˈspændaʊ/ Military.
I. Compounds.
1. Spandau gun n. (also Spandau machine-gun) any of various German machine-guns originally developed at Spandau; spec. the MG08, used during the First World War (1914–18), and the MG34 and MG42 of the Second World War (1939–45).
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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
a1918 J. T. B. McCudden Five Years in R.F.C. (1919) v. xii. 241 I distinctly noticed the red-yellow flashes from his parallel Spandau guns.
1940 Illustr. London News 19 Oct. 14 (caption) A Spandau machine-gun captured from a Dornier ‘17’ which fell to their regiment.
1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) iv. 29 In their pit lay a Spandau machine-gun.
a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 51 We became aware of..the calico-tearing speed of Spandau machine guns being fired at the advancing Royal Scots.
II. Simple uses.
2. A Spandau gun.
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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
1929 E. W. Springs Above Bright Blue Sky 221 He was suddenly cold as he awaited the crack of the spandaus.
1938 G. S. Hutchinson Machine Guns xii. 333 The British were armed with Vickers, the Germans with Spandaus.
1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vi. 97 Vitconne is crouched behind a Spandau lent to him by a friendly German officer.
a1985 P. White With the Jocks (2003) 150 The Germans had left a Spandau and an MG 34 in our billet in their hurried retreat from the village.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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