Meaning | A rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted). |
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Parts | stock, gunstock | The handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun |
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Narrower | Browning machine gun, Peacemaker | A belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute |
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Gatling gun | An early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated |
Maxim gun | An obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel |
Spandau | A German machine gun |
automatic rifle, automatic, machine rifle | light machine gun |
submachine gun | machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm |
Broader | automatic firearm, automatic gun, automatic weapon | A firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released |
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Spanish | ametralladora |
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Catalan | metralladora |
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Verbs | machine gun | shoot with a machine gun |
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