Maxim gun
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Etymology
After the inventor, Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).
Proper noun
- (firearms) A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
- (firearms) A machine gun which derives after some manner from the patented gun mechanism of Sir Hiram Maxim
- (firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun