Usually means: Early fully automatic machine gun.
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  1. Maxim gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Maxim gun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Maxim gun: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Maxim gun: Vocabulary.com
  5. Maxim gun: Wordnik
  6. Maxim gun: Wiktionary
  7. Maxim gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Maxim gun, maxim gun: Dictionary.com
  9. Maxim Gun, Maxim gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Maxim gun: Rhymezone
  11. maxim gun: FreeDictionary.org
  12. maxim gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Maxim gun: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Maxim Gun: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See maxim_guns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Maxim gun)

noun:  (firearms) A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.
noun:  (firearms) A machine gun which derives after some manner from the patented gun mechanism of Sir Hiram Maxim
noun:  (firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun

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