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Maxim gun

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

Origin:
1880–85; after H. S. Maxim
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Maxim gun  
n.  An early, water-cooled, automatic machine gun having a single barrel.

[After Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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