gas-operated
[ gas-op-uh-rey-tid ]
adjective
(of a firearm) using some of the exhaust gases to operate the action.
Origin of gas-operated
1First recorded in 1940–45
Words Nearby gas-operated
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How to use gas-operated in a sentence
It is of the heavy type, gas operated, air cooled, and belt fed.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellIt is a gas-operated gun, something like the Colt, and it is air-cooled.
Inventions of the Great War | A. Russell (Alexander Russell) BondThe Skoda gun, some of which type are used in Japan and China, is loaded by a hopper feed, and is gas-operated.
This gun is of a heavy type, air-cooled, gas-operated, and fed from either a strip holding 30 cartridges or a metallic link belt.
America's Munitions 1917-1918 | Benedict CrowellIt is also fitted with a fog bell struck automatically by a gas operated mechanism.
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