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▪ I. Maxim, n.2|ˈmæksɪm|
[From the name of Sir Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor.]
In full Maxim (machine) gun, Maxim mitrailleuse, or bomb Maxim: A single-barrelled quick-firing machine gun, the barrel of which is surrounded by an outer casing filled with water to keep the parts cool, and the mechanism so adjusted that any number of shots can be fired in a given time up to six hundred rounds a minute. Also Maxim-Nordenfelt gun, a modification of the original Maxim gun.
1885Nature 5 Mar. 414/2 The Maxim Gun. Ibid. 415 Fig. 1—Maxim Mitrailleuse. 1889E. Rogers Machine Rifle-batteries 26 The barrel of the Maxim is..surrounded by a water jacket. 1892Greener Gun (ed. 5) 186 The Maxim machine gun. 1900Daily News 19 Mar. 4/1 The Maxim-Nordenfeldt, or pom-pom, is thought very highly of. 1900Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/2 Our soldiers..had not so much as the moral support of a bomb Maxim with them.
▪ II. Maxim, v. nonce-wd.|ˈmæksɪm|
[f. Maxim n.2]
trans. To kill with a Maxim gun.
1894Sat. Rev. 20 Jan. 61/2, I Maxim you by three thousands, that is fair war and glorious victory. 1903Kipling Five Nations 82 Said England unto Pharaoh, ‘I must make a man of you,..That will Maxim his oppressor as a Christian ought to do’. |