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Maxim gun   /mˈæksəm gən/   Listen
noun
Maxim gun  n.  A kind of machine gun; named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... companies of the 4th Sikhs, and the Devonshire Regiment Maxim gun, were sent across after much labour by means of a little skin raft that only held two at a time. The near bank was also sungared and held by the 2nd Brigade and the Derajat mountain battery, which at eight hundred yards' range could fire over the heads of those at the ...
— The Story of the Guides • G. J. Younghusband



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