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Definition of Machine rifle
1. Noun. Light machine gun.
Specialized synonyms: Assault Gun, Assault Rifle, Bar, Browning Automatic Rifle
Generic synonyms: Automatic Firearm, Automatic Gun, Automatic Weapon, Machine Gun
Derivative terms: Automatic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Machine Rifle
Literary usage of Machine rifle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"Automatic Machine-Rifle, Caliber .30, Mark II. General description.—The gun
comprises a single barrel, receiver, guard, and stock, rigidly assembled. ..."
2. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by The Review of reviews (1918)
"The Browning machine rifle has a device to counteract this, ... One pattern,
known as the Browning machine rifle, can be fired from the shoulder or the hip. ..."
3. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by Julius Washington Muller (1918)
"The Browning machine rifle has a device to counteract this, ... One pattern,
known as the Browning machine rifle, can be fired from the shoulder or the hip. ..."
4. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"BROWNING MACHINE GUN [Test of Browning machine rifle. ... The Browning machine
rifle is an air-cooled, gas- operated gun, weighing fifteen pounds and ..."
5. The Warfare of To-day by Paul Azan, Julian Lowell Coolidge (1918)
"Automatic machine rifle (fusil ... On the other hand, care must be taken not to
confuse the automatic machine rifle with the machine gun. ..."
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