WordNet
machine rifle
n. light machine gun [syn: automatic rifle, automatic]
Usage examples of "machine rifle".
Some people in an airboat sprayed them with a machine rifle as they came out onto the landing stage.
The man was wearing clean clothes, and using the stock of an M-60 machine rifle as a cane.
The gun was a sixty-pound machine rifle, equipped with homemade grips and shoulder and chest pads, set for single fire.
Phil reached back behind the door, picked up a flarelight standing beside a heavy machine rifle, and came outside.
Ammo belts for a machine gun were draped across his chest like bandoliers, and he was cradling a massive M-60 machine rifle.