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Vickers|ˈvɪkəz|
The name of a manufacturing company, orig. Vickers, Ltd., used:
1. a. attrib. With reference to any of a variety of products of the firm, esp. armaments, aircraft, etc. Occas. also in the possessive.
1913303-Inch Machine Guns (Ordnance College: Field Artillery & Small Arms Branch) 62 (heading) Gun, Vickers', ·303-in., Light. 1917A. G. Empey Over Top 313 Vickers gun. 1919Vickers News 15 Oct. 7/2 Vickers engines are occasionally tested on some such oil as Texas. Ibid. 1 Nov. 25 (caption) A Vickers airship is also seen leaving Barrow with letters for Sheffield. a1944K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) xiii. 79 Our supporting infantry manned their Vickers M.G.s on the flanks. 1945Penguin New Writing xxiv. 31 In front of me the man carrying the Vickers ammunition. 1949B. W. A. Dixon Aircraft i. 14/1 The Vickers ‘Vimy’, a twin⁓engined bomber designed originally for the long-distance bombing of Berlin. 1953C. A. Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis ii. vi. 295 Alcock and Brown..got across the ocean in their twin-engined Vickers bomber. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIX. 688/2 The Maxim machine guns, later often known as Vickers weapons, were used throughout the world well into the 1960s.
b. absol. One of a series of machine-guns manufactured by the company and used in both World Wars, esp. the ·303 or Vickers Maxim.
1917G. Frankau City of Fear 18 You know what it's like in a listening-post, The Very candles aflare, Their bullets smacking the sand-bags, our Vickers combing your hair. 1918T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 243 A frontal attack of eighteen men, two Vickers, and two large Hotchkiss. 1942E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 195 Nigel was full of questions;..what was the difference between a Bren and a Vickers. 1946R. Capell Simiomata i. 36 The caiques scattered with Brens and Vickers raking them.
2. attrib. With reference to a method of testing the hardness of a material (esp. metal) by measuring the indentation produced when a small diamond pyramid is applied to the surface under a specified load.
1926Automobile Engineer XVI. 105/1 In designing the Vickers machine..an impression having a diameter equal to three-eighths that of the ball has been taken as ideal. 1930Engineering 12 Sept. 318/2 The hardness of hardened steel was further raised from Vickers number 950 to 1,100 by this treatment. 1973J. G. Tweeddale Materials Technol. I. iv. 77 The most standard form of test is the Vickers hardness system performed by pushing a standard square pyramid diamond indenter..into the surface of the material. |