Mauser "Mavzer"

Mauser. Bolt action rifle
Nearly all infantryman in the First World War used bolt action rifles. This type of rifle had been invented by a Scottish immigrant to the United States, James Paris Lee. The bolt is the device that closes the breech of the barrel. The bolt-action rifle had a metal box, into which cartridges were placed on top of a spring. As the bolt was opened, the spring forced the cartridges up against a stop; the bolt pushed the top cartridge into the chamber as it closed. After firing, the opening of the bolt extracted the empty cartridge case, and the return stroke loaded a fresh round.

Cartridges were injected into the magazine by means of a clip. They consisted of open-ended slides or cases within which a number of cartridges, 3, 5 or 6 were gripped by the spring metal of the case or a spring incorporated in the base. The Lee-Enfield was the main rifle used by the British Army during the First World War. Other popular bolt action rifles included the Mauser Gewehr (Germany), Lebel (France), Mannlicher-Carcano (Italy), Springfield (United States), Moisin-Nagant (Russia), Mannlicher M95 (Austria) and Arisaka (Japan) and Mauser Gewehr (Germany) which is the subject of this posting since it entered Turkish language as "Mavzer".

Peter Paul Mauser was born in Oberndorff, Neckar, in 1838. Working with his brother Wilhelm Mauser (1834-1882), he developed the needle gun that was adopted by the German Army in 1871.
Peter Paul Mauser produced the Mauser Gewehr magazine-rifle in 1897. It was Germany's answer to the French Lebel M1888. It has been claimed that the Mauser Gewehr was the most successful bolt-action rifle ever designed.

Mauser
Noun
1. German arms manufacturer and inventor of a repeating rifle and pistol (1838-1914)
(synonym) von Mauser, P. P. von Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser
(hypernym) inventor, discoverer, artificer
2. trademark for a repeating rifle or pistol
(hypernym) repeating firearm, repeater