Proper noun
A surname
Noun
The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
- Synonyms
- Maxim gunVickers gun
- Examples
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Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were.
Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
A machine gun
Usage- Informal
- Obsolete