| 单词 | sten gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSten gun More fully Sten gun: a type of light, rapid-fire, sub-machine-gun. Also figurative and attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [adjective] > types of sub-machine-gun Nordenfelt1880 Sten1942 Uzi1959 Stechkin1962 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of Thompson sub-machine gun1920 Thompson1921 Schmeisser1922 tommy gun1929 Chicago piano1936 Owen gun1941 Sten1942 Owen1948 Sterling1958 Uzi1959 Stechkin1962 kalashnikov1970 1942 Times 16 July 8/3 It [sc. the gun] was known as the Schmeisser gun, and the Sten was merely a slight modification of it... The Ministry of Supply was not justified in taking to itself high praise for the speed of production of the Sten, and in giving the country the false impression that ‘Colonel S’ and ‘Major T’ invented and designed the gun. 1942 ‘G. Orwell’ Diary 7 Aug. in Coll. Ess. (1968) II. 442 Last night for the first time took a Sten gun to pieces. 1959 ‘N. Blake’ Widow's Cruise 99 He went off into a sten-gun burst of Greek. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 255 It was bloody murder. I had shed the set, and went in firing the sten from the hip. 1971 B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 261 In my ammo pouch, against the sten magazines, I had stuffed the picture of Hanuman. 1974 S. Gulliver Vulcan Bull. 18 Automatic weapons like Stens and Sterlings. < as lemmas |
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