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plural Maxims
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(firearms) The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I. quotations examples
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.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 104
(firearms) Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design examples
(firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun