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Lewis gun
Lew·is gun (plural Lew·is guns)


noun 
Definition:
 
early machine gun: a gas-powered machine gun with a circular magazine, first used in World War I
[Early 20th century. After Colonel Isaac Newton Lewis (1858-1931), U.S. soldier]
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