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Maxim en · NOUN

Etymology

* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Meanings

1. The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
   • Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were. 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:
2. Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
3. (informal, obsolete) A machine gun

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Synonyms

Maxim gun · Vickers gun

Maxim en · PROPN

Etymology

* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Meanings

1. A surname

Forms