Maxim

A surname

Proper noun

  1. A surname

Origin

* (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).

Forms

Maxims Maxim gun maxim gun maxim

Noun

  1. The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
    • 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:

    Synonyms: Maxim gun Vickers gun

  2. Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
  3. A machine gun

Forms

Maxims Maxim gun maxim gun maxim