单词 | drum magazine |
释义 | > as lemmasdrum magazine (c) A detachable cylindrical magazine for (esp. automatic) firearms, in which ammunition is typically stored in a spiral arrangement (also more fully drum magazine); the contents of such a magazine. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > feed-block of machine-gun > cartridge container drum1870 1870 Engineering 23 Dec. 450/3 On the right of the drum is a locking arrangement for keeping it in position when not actually being fired. 1888 Cent. Mag. Oct. 887/1 The drum [of a Gatling gun] contains 102 cartridges. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 198 Can you fill the cartridges into these drums while I shoot? 1942 Salt Lake Tribune 9 Jan. 2/5 One Australian fired a whole drum of submachine gun bullets into the general's body. 1960 W. H. B. Smith & J. E. Smith Small Arms of World (ed. 6) xxv. 371/1 This weapon..used a drum magazine and a bipod. 2012 Independent on Sunday 22 July 4/1 Particularly deadly was a 100-round drum magazine, which meant he would be able to fire 50 to 60 rounds per minute. < as lemmas |
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