Meanings
nounLewis gun (plural Lewis guns)
plural Lewis guns
- historicalA light machine gun adopted by Belgium and the UK before World War I and widely used.First known use c 1915
Origin
After its designer Isaac Newton Lewis.
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Lewis gun. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lewis%20gun
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