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单词 maxim gun
释义

Maxim gun


noun

an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.

Origin of Maxim gun

First recorded in 1880–85; after H. S. Maxim

Words nearby Maxim gun

maximal, maximal dose, maximal ideal, maximalist, maximal permissible dose, Maxim gun, Maximilian, Maximilian armor, Maximilian I, Maximilian II, maximin
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Example sentences from the Web for Maxim gun

  • The gunboats fired in the two days' bombardment 650 shells and several thousand rounds of Maxim-gun ammunition.

    The River War|Winston S. Churchill

British Dictionary definitions for Maxim gun

Maxim gun
/ (ˈmæksɪm) /

noun

an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel and utilizing the recoil force of each shot to maintain automatic fire

Word Origin for Maxim gun

C19: named after Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840–1916), its US-born British inventor
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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