Definition of Mauser

1. Noun. German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914).


2. Noun. Trademark for a repeating rifle or pistol.
Generic synonyms: Repeater, Repeating Firearm

Definition of Mauser

1. Proper noun. Any of the firearms made or designed by the Mauser company, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mauser

Maurism
Maurist
Maurists
Mauritania
Mauritanian
Mauritanian monetary unit
Mauritanians
Mauritanie
Mauritian
Mauritian Creole
Mauritian monetary unit
Mauritian rupee
Mauritians
Mauritius
Maurois
Mauser
Mauthner
Mauthner's cell
Mauthner's sheath
Mauthner's test
Mauthner neuron
Mavis
Mavors
Mawworm
Mawworms
Max
Max Beerbohm
Max Born
Max Bruch
Max Delbruck

Literary usage of Mauser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Spanish mauser. (Text Book of Small Arms, by permission.) which is supposed to act as a ... 16) which in its action has a general resemblance to a mauser. ..."

2. The Story of South Africa: An Account of the Historical Transformation of by John Clark Ridpath, Edward Sylvester Ellis (1899)
"He believed it was an explosive bullet, but it may have been a mauser at short range, ... The mauser bullet weighs, I believe, about 2.3 grains. ..."

3. With the Conquering Turk: Confessions of a Bashibazouk by George Warrington Steevens (1897)
"mauser RIFLES. A BAND II had an idea that bands never went into action nowadays, but this was unquestionably a band. Rather a good band, ..."

4. Gunshot Injuries, Their History, Characteristic Features, Complications, and by Thomas Longmore (1895)
"After the war was over, the Germans, in 1871, adopted a breech-loading rifle, known, after the name of its inventor, as the mauser rifle. ..."

5. The Future of War in Its Technical, Economic, and Political Relations: Is by Ivan Stanislavovich Bloch, Robert Cary Long (1899)
"Number of Horses' Carcases Penetrated by the Bullets of the mauser 5 Mil. Rifle at various Ranges. RANGE. The enormous energy of such projectiles will for ..."

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