Browning automatic rifle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Browning automatic rifle
First recorded in 1900–05; named after J. M. Browning
Example Sentences
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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
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