Browning automatic rifle

American  

noun

1. an air-cooled, fully automatic rifle capable of firing 200 to 350 rounds per minute. BAR

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Etymology

Origin of Browning automatic rifle

First recorded in 1900–05; named after J. M. Browning

Example Sentences

During a search of Maida’s home on June 17, deputies confiscated more than a dozen firearms, including a Browning automatic rifle and an AR-15 assault rifle. 

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2016

When the Korean war came, he was an expert with the big Browning automatic rifle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Browning automatic rifle, for example, to my mind one of the greatest weapons developed by the war, was invented in the United States in the summer of 1917.

From Average Americans by Roosevelt, Theodore