Maxim
EigennameSubstantivin Dialogen belegt
A surname
Eigenname
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A surname
Herkunft
* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).
Substantiv
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The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
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.
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Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
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umgangssprachlichA machine gun
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