What is "magazine gun"

Magazine \Mag`a*zine"\, n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen, almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or cellar.]

1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. ``Armories and magazines.''
   --Milton.

2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

5. A country or district especially rich in natural products.

6. A city viewed as a marketing center.

7. A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.

8. A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.

   Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine.

   Magazine gun, a portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which are brought automatically into position for firing.

   Magazine stove, a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.