maxim gun

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   an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel

   Broadermachine gun

Questions about maxim gun

What does maxim gun mean?

maxim gun means "an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel".

Is maxim gun a common word?

maxim gun is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.