Machine gun Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
  2. verb shoot with a machine gun

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Definitions
  1. a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession, sometimes in volleys, by machinery operated by turning a crank. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, Gardner gun, Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are machine guns.
Definitions
  1. . See under Gun.

Webster 1913