magazine gun

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

2.The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship. [1913 Webster]

3.A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece. [1913 Webster]

4.A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. [1913 Webster]

5.A country or district especially rich in natural products. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

6.A city viewed as a marketing center. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

7.A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

8.A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.

Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.

Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner. [1913 Webster]