| 单词 | pom-pom gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspom-pom gun a. More fully pom-pom gun. Any of various automatic quick-firing guns; (in later use esp.) any one of a group of anti-aircraft guns on a ship.Originally used of the Maxim gun as used during the Boer War. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > types of mitrailleuse1867 mitrailleur1869 Gatling gun1870 light machine gun1883 Gardner1884 Maxim1884 volley gun1884 Nordenfelt1885 Maxim1888 camel-gun1891 Maxim–Nordenfeldt gun1898 pom-pom1899 bomb Maxim1900 Lewis (machine) gun1913 Spandau guna1918 Vickers1917 LMG1922 Spandau1929 Bren1937 1899 Daily News 6 Dec. 5/4 Automatic guns, nicknamed pom-poms. 1900 Daily News 5 Mar. 2/3 Near where the ‘pom-pom’ gun was placed, is the overflowing supply store. 1940 ‘N. Shute’ Landfall vii. 175 I should think the multiple pom-poms would have got the machine. 1984 A. MacLean San Andreas (1986) Prol. 10 The anti-aircraft gunners on the merchant ships peered over the sights of their Oerlikons, Bofors or pom-poms—two-pounders. 2003 Navy News Sept. 42/2 Though wounded many times, Mantle stuck to his 20mm pompom until the end of the attack on Portland Harbour. < as lemmas |
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