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Machine gun   /məʃˈin gən/   Listen
Machine gun

noun
1.
A rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted).
verb
1.
Shoot with a machine gun.



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"Machine gun" Quotes from Famous Books



... the machine gun ceased and Chester advanced to the road again. The same German officer who, a moment ago, had scorned the lad's warning, now advanced and tendered his sword ...
— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes
... the German making the first spiral upward, in an effort to attain a position suitable for using the machine gun. Blaine therefore zigzagged more to westward, thereby throwing the reviving Erwin into an easier position. At this an easier position. At this Blaine was pleased to see his friend look wonderingly at him and the bowed head ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry
... It might have been created at that very moment in the sky. The Frenchman—for it was an aviator from the parc at Toul, since killed at Verdun, poor fellow—swooped beneath his antagonist and fired his machine gun at him. The German answered with two shots of a carbine. The Frenchman fired again. Suddenly the German machine flopped to the right and swooped down; it then flopped to the left, the tail of the machine flew up, ...
— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan
... flashed. The man nearest to the first machine gun dropped in his track. The second man, Lieutenant Blum, touched the nearest machine gun. Frank's revolver spoke again. The German lieutenant ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... Virginia for the making of part of the smokeless powder required; the British Enfield rifle was modified to use American ammunition so that machinery already making arms for England could be utilized with a minimum of change; and European experience having indicated the value of the machine gun, a new and improved type was invented by John M. Browning. In many cases, however, it was impossible immediately to equip both the soldiers in training here, and those who could be sent abroad. Hence surplus equipment of certain kinds was supplied by France and England. Furthermore, ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley


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