Machine gun
Machine gun noun - A rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted).
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Repeater and machine gun are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Repeater" instead a noun phrase "Machine gun".
Repeater
Repeater noun - A person who repeats.
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Synonyms for Repeater
Machine gun and repeater are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Machine gun" instead a noun "Repeater".
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They refer to a belt-fed machine gun as an 'endless repeater' and a computer as a 'qwerty', after the letters on the keyboard.
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More Dakka: Borgia arquebusiers, cannons, and Leonardo's various inventions, including a prototype machine gun, though its slow (by modern standards) fire rate makes it essentially a large, chariot-mounted repeater.
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