Thompsonn.

Brit.

/ˈtɒm(p)sn/, U.S.

/ˈtɑm(p)sən/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Thompson.

Etymology: < the surname Thompson. The reason for application in sense 1 is unclear. In sense 2 after the name of Nathan Thompson Jr., U.S. marine engineer and inventor, who patented this kind of gun in 1872. In senses 3 and 4 after the name of John T. Thompson (1860–1940), U.S. army general, who conceived this kind of sub-machine gun, which was financed by his company and named after him in 1919 at the insistence of its designer, Oscar V. Payne.In some early instances it is unclear which kind of gun is intended.

Military (originally U.S.).

I. Compounds.

1. attributive. Designating a sporting rifle of some kind. disused.

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1857 N.Y. Herald 7 Jan. 7/1 (advt.) One double gun, known by sportsmen as the Thompson gun, with all of the sporting dogs and other effects.

1900 A. S. Burbank Guide Hist. Plymouth 21 Next is another miscellaneous case, in which is the famous long-shot Thompson gun, and the gun barrel with which King Philip was killed.

2. attributive. Designating a breech-loading artillery piece or cannon with a barrel that encloses a rifled steel tube. Now historical and rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [adjective] > other attributes of artillery

single1546

light1687

well-served1700

reverse1702

heavy1728

Thompson1872

1872 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (42nd Congr., 3rd Sess.) I. 488 The recommendation that the Woodbridge, the Sutcliffe, the Hitchcock, and the Thompson guns be made, out of money now applicable to the manufacture of heavy rifled ordnance.

1891 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (51st Congr., 1st Sess.) No. 2084. VII. 61 One 12-inch carriage..altered from 15-inch Rodman gun-carriage; used to fire Thompson rifle.

1899 Cases Court of Claims U.S. 24 186 These qualities were actually obtained..with the 12.25ʺ rifle, cast in 1877, and also with the 12ʺ Thompson rifle, cast in 1873.

1906 Proc. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 32 164 This, at a later date, led to his employment at Boston in the design of the ‘Thompson gun’.

1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 615 Thompson gun, a breech-loading rifle consisting of a cast-iron body of the usual Rodman model, embracing..a steel tube.

3. attributive. Designating any of a range of automatic or semi-automatic rifles or carbines typically firing .45 cartridges and having both a shoulder stock and one or two pistol grips. Thompson sub-machine gun n. a fully automatic weapon of this type, in widespread use during the 20th cent., esp. by Allied forces during the Second World War (1939–45) and in later military use until the 1970s. Cf. tommy gun n.A proprietary name in the United States.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of

Thompson sub-machine gun1920

Thompson1921

Schmeisser1922

tommy gun1929

Chicago piano1936

Owen gun1941

Sten1942

Owen1948

Sterling1958

Uzi1959

Stechkin1962

kalashnikov1970

1920 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 2 Oct. 120/1 Colonel Thompson is now connected with the Auto-Ordnance Corporation of New York City, which has put the Thompson sub-machine gun on the market.

1928 N.Y. Times 2 May 1/2 The winning of this prize does not mean that the Thompson rifle has been definitely adopted for the army.

1933 ‘J. Spenser’ Limey ii. 27 There was a Thompson sub~machine gun, universally known in gangland as a ‘Tommy gun’.

1947 J. S. Hatcher Hatcher's Notebook vi. 166 (caption) Thompson semiautomatic rifle in the .276 Pedersen caliber.

1948 U.S. Court of Claims Rep. 109 242 The mechanism of the Thompson rifle is adjusted to operate with ammunition having a 170 grain bullet.

1970 E. K. Walker in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 54 Captain Bull..carried a Thompson submachine gun at high port.

1999 M. Farren Jim Morrison's Adventures ix. 410 A zoot-suited vato armed with a sacred Thompson gun.

2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Feb. 38/4 The .45 Thompson submachine gun, an American invention, was resisted by British officers in the 1920s as a ‘gangster weapon’.

2013 P. Jones Church Zero iii. 67 This is why in the miniseries Band of Brothers Lieutenant Winters is seen wielding a knife in the dark rather than a Thompson rifle on his first night in France.

II. Simple uses.

4. A Thompson sub-machine gun (see sense 3).

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of

Thompson sub-machine gun1920

Thompson1921

Schmeisser1922

tommy gun1929

Chicago piano1936

Owen gun1941

Sten1942

Owen1948

Sterling1958

Uzi1959

Stechkin1962

kalashnikov1970

1921 M. Thompson Let. 26 Apr. in W. J. Helmer Gun that made Twenties Roar (1969) iv. 69 We came back with a tentative agreement on their part to purchase 50,000 Thompsons.

1946 D. M. Ward Other Battle xxi. 140 An order was placed in America for Thompsons, but by the time the first few were delivered it was realized that not enough ·45 ammunition could be made.

1978 D. Murphy Place Apart ii. 22 Kerins had a Thompson under the bed but he never had a chance to use it.

1990 Mil. Illustr. Past & Present Sept. 52/1 The Thompson was the only sub-machine gun available in any numbers until the later arrival of the mass-produced Sten.

2004 J. H. Willbanks Machine Guns v. 88 Nelson, armed with a Thompson, reportedly charged the FBI agents' car, firing from the hip and killing both agents.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	thompson
释义	Thompsonn. Brit. /ˈtɒm(p)sn/, U.S. /ˈtɑm(p)sən/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Thompson. Etymology: < the surname Thompson. The reason for application in sense 1 is unclear. In sense 2 after the name of Nathan Thompson Jr., U.S. marine engineer and inventor, who patented this kind of gun in 1872. In senses 3 and 4 after the name of John T. Thompson (1860–1940), U.S. army general, who conceived this kind of sub-machine gun, which was financed by his company and named after him in 1919 at the insistence of its designer, Oscar V. Payne.In some early instances it is unclear which kind of gun is intended. Military (originally U.S.). I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating a sporting rifle of some kind. disused. ΚΠ 1857 N.Y. Herald 7 Jan. 7/1 (advt.) One double gun, known by sportsmen as the Thompson gun, with all of the sporting dogs and other effects. 1900 A. S. Burbank Guide Hist. Plymouth 21 Next is another miscellaneous case, in which is the famous long-shot Thompson gun, and the gun barrel with which King Philip was killed. 2. attributive. Designating a breech-loading artillery piece or cannon with a barrel that encloses a rifled steel tube. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [adjective] > other attributes of artillery single1546 light1687 well-served1700 reverse1702 heavy1728 Thompson1872 1872 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (42nd Congr., 3rd Sess.) I. 488 The recommendation that the Woodbridge, the Sutcliffe, the Hitchcock, and the Thompson guns be made, out of money now applicable to the manufacture of heavy rifled ordnance. 1891 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (51st Congr., 1st Sess.) No. 2084. VII. 61 One 12-inch carriage..altered from 15-inch Rodman gun-carriage; used to fire Thompson rifle. 1899 Cases Court of Claims U.S. 24 186 These qualities were actually obtained..with the 12.25ʺ rifle, cast in 1877, and also with the 12ʺ Thompson rifle, cast in 1873. 1906 Proc. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 32 164 This, at a later date, led to his employment at Boston in the design of the ‘Thompson gun’. 1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 615 Thompson gun, a breech-loading rifle consisting of a cast-iron body of the usual Rodman model, embracing..a steel tube. 3. attributive. Designating any of a range of automatic or semi-automatic rifles or carbines typically firing .45 cartridges and having both a shoulder stock and one or two pistol grips. Thompson sub-machine gun n. a fully automatic weapon of this type, in widespread use during the 20th cent., esp. by Allied forces during the Second World War (1939–45) and in later military use until the 1970s. Cf. tommy gun n.A proprietary name in the United States. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of Thompson sub-machine gun1920 Thompson1921 Schmeisser1922 tommy gun1929 Chicago piano1936 Owen gun1941 Sten1942 Owen1948 Sterling1958 Uzi1959 Stechkin1962 kalashnikov1970 1920 Army & Navy Jrnl. (U.S.) 2 Oct. 120/1 Colonel Thompson is now connected with the Auto-Ordnance Corporation of New York City, which has put the Thompson sub-machine gun on the market. 1928 N.Y. Times 2 May 1/2 The winning of this prize does not mean that the Thompson rifle has been definitely adopted for the army. 1933 ‘J. Spenser’ Limey ii. 27 There was a Thompson sub~machine gun, universally known in gangland as a ‘Tommy gun’. 1947 J. S. Hatcher Hatcher's Notebook vi. 166 (caption) Thompson semiautomatic rifle in the .276 Pedersen caliber. 1948 U.S. Court of Claims Rep. 109 242 The mechanism of the Thompson rifle is adjusted to operate with ammunition having a 170 grain bullet. 1970 E. K. Walker in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 54 Captain Bull..carried a Thompson submachine gun at high port. 1999 M. Farren Jim Morrison's Adventures ix. 410 A zoot-suited vato armed with a sacred Thompson gun. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 10 Feb. 38/4 The .45 Thompson submachine gun, an American invention, was resisted by British officers in the 1920s as a ‘gangster weapon’. 2013 P. Jones Church Zero iii. 67 This is why in the miniseries Band of Brothers Lieutenant Winters is seen wielding a knife in the dark rather than a Thompson rifle on his first night in France. II. Simple uses. 4. A Thompson sub-machine gun (see sense 3). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of Thompson sub-machine gun1920 Thompson1921 Schmeisser1922 tommy gun1929 Chicago piano1936 Owen gun1941 Sten1942 Owen1948 Sterling1958 Uzi1959 Stechkin1962 kalashnikov1970 1921 M. Thompson Let. 26 Apr. in W. J. Helmer Gun that made Twenties Roar (1969) iv. 69 We came back with a tentative agreement on their part to purchase 50,000 Thompsons. 1946 D. M. Ward Other Battle xxi. 140 An order was placed in America for Thompsons, but by the time the first few were delivered it was realized that not enough ·45 ammunition could be made. 1978 D. Murphy Place Apart ii. 22 Kerins had a Thompson under the bed but he never had a chance to use it. 1990 Mil. Illustr. Past & Present Sept. 52/1 The Thompson was the only sub-machine gun available in any numbers until the later arrival of the mass-produced Sten. 2004 J. H. Willbanks Machine Guns v. 88 Nelson, armed with a Thompson, reportedly charged the FBI agents' car, firing from the hip and killing both agents. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857
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