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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
Maxim gun
–noun
| an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil. |
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| Maxim gun
n. An early, water-cooled, automatic machine gun having a single barrel. [After Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.] |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| maxim gun | |
noun | |
| an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Maxim gun
Max"im gun`\ A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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