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MACHINE RIFLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Light machine gun
Synonyms:
automatic; automatic rifle; machine rifle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("machine rifle" is a kind of...):
automatic firearm; automatic gun; automatic weapon (a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released)
machine gun (a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "machine rifle"):
assault gun; assault rifle (any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use)
BAR; Browning automatic rifle (a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War)
