English Explanatory Dictionary

Maxim gun

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
  2. A machine gun which derives after some manner from the patented gun mechanism of Sir Hiram Maxim
  3. A machine gun

Word forms

Maxim gun Maxim

Etymology

After the inventor, Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

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