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mateliur

noun

LanguageBetawi (Indonesia)

Meaning
  1. machine gun
  2. An automatic firearm that is capable of rapid continuous fire.
Examples

Tentara itu berjaga dengan mateliur.

The soldier stood guard with a machine gun.

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteThis is a loanword from the Dutch 'mitrailleur'.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.