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Definition of Automatic rifle

1. Noun. Light machine gun.

Definition of Automatic rifle

1. Noun. A rifle that loads itself either from a belt or magazine and being either semi-automatic or fully automatic. Generally referred to as a machine gun. ¹

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Literary usage of Automatic rifle

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)
"But both these improvements are destined to be eclipsed in importance by the adoption of the automatic rifle. The application of the automatic principle to ..."

2. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1916)
"The question of arming the infantry with an automatic rifle is still open for discussion. The great war has come without any nation having made the radical ..."

3. The War of Positions by Paul Jean Louis Azan (1917)
"The term " automatic rifle " is henceforth reserved for this weapon. On the other hand, care must be taken not to confuse the automatic machine rifle with ..."

4. The Warfare of To-day by Paul Jean Louis Azan, Julian Lowell Coolidge (1918)
"The term "automatic rifle " is henceforth reserved for this weapon. On the other hand, care must be taken not to confuse the automatic machine rifle with ..."

5. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"automatic rifle.—An air-cooled gun not capable of continuous fire, both on account of the ... The Lewis and Benet-Mercie are of the automatic-rifle type. ..."

6. Development of Tactics--World War by William Balck (1922)
"The possibility of fire by the automatic rifle on the move forced the enemy under cover in the final phases of the charge. Of course, the machine gun could ..."

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