harvester
n.— «Four or five men in tracksuits got out and opened their car boots. They pulled out belt-fed BKC machineguns, a weapon known in Iraq as “the harvester” for its ability to kill lots of people quickly.» —“I saw boys murdered—then their parents got guns to kill each other” by James Hider Times (London, England) Mar. 26, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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