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garand
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Garand is a French surname. It is most commonly seen as M1 Garand rifle, an eponym to describe the United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1 It may also refer to the Garand carbine , a .30 caliber carbine designed by John Garand in 1941
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
garand \garand\ n. [From the inventor, John C. Garand.] A semiautomatic rifle, also called the M-1 , used by soldiers of the U. S. army in World War II and Korea. It was the standard weapon issued to infantrymen. Syn: Garand rifle, M-1, M-1 rifle.
Usage examples of garand.
He put his shako squarely on his head, and picked up his M1 Garand rifle.
He came to attention, lowered the butt of the Garand onto the carpet, and rendered the first movement of the rifle salute.
Felter moved the muzzle of the Garand four inches forward, moved his left foot six inches to the side, and put his left hand in the small of his back.
Lowell remembered trying without much success to reload the spring steel clips for the Garand on the rifle range at Fort Dix.
Felter went after him, and Lowell followed, feeling foolish, carrying the Garand at port arms.
When he put the Garand to his shoulder and pushed the safety off, he thought for the first time that he had not fired it.
Lowell put a clip in the Garand, pushed the safety off, and shot twice in the air.
With a Ceremonious bow, he handed the Garand to the captain and then motioned him to sit down in the firing position.
And now Felter--was back at Ioannina, while Lowell had the Garand rifle training of the whole regiment to himself.
The captain said something viciously sarcastic, then turned to his Garand again.
William Walker pushed the modified Garand into the saddle scabbard and tied the thong that held it in place as he looked around in pride.
In his professional judgment, the Garand was the finest military rifle yet developed.
If he turned the Garand in, he reasoned, it would almost certainly spend the war in a rifle rack at Quantico.
He had in no way changed his opinion about the Garand rifle-far to the contrary.
Colonel Stecker felt that the way to go about armed was with a Garand and a .