Originally: a machine-gun with a number of barrels, able to discharge projectiles rapidly and simultaneously in large quantities, or singly in quick…

= mitrailleuse, n. Also (in quot. 1876): a machine-gun which fires multiple rockets. Now historical.

attributive in Gatling gun, a form of machine gun, with a cluster of barrels into which the cartridges are automatically loaded at the breech…

a small portable machine gun (cf. sense A. 8); spec. any hand-held air-cooled machine gun with a calibre no greater than 8 mm.

Used attributively and absolutely to designate a type of machine gun invented by Gardner, which has two to five barrels side by side.

attributive. Designating a recoil-operated machine-gun, having an outer casing around the single barrel filled with water to keep it cool, and…

a form of machine-gun which fires bullets successively or in a volley (Knight, 1884).

A gun of this type. Now rare.

A Maxim machine-gun. Also called Vickers gun.

a gun, as a machine gun, made light and short so as to be transportable by camels.

a machine-gun having two or more barrels, manufactured by the amalgamated Maxim and Nordenfelt gun companies in the late 19th cent. (see also Norde…

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.

a Maxim gun (Maxim, n.4 1).

In full, Lewis (machine) gun. A light, magazine-fed, gas-operated, and air-cooled machine gun. So Lewis-gunner and other attributive and in other…

any of various German machine-guns originally developed at Spandau; spec. the MG08, used during the First World War (1914–18), and the MG34 and…

absol. One of a series of machine-guns manufactured by the company and used in both World Wars, esp. the ·303 or Vickers Maxim.

light machine-gun.

A Spandau gun.

In full, Bren gun. A type of light, quick-firing machine-gun. Also attributive, as Bren carrier n. also Bren gun carrier a small bullet-proof…