remington
n. countablen. a type of old-fashioned machine for writing or a specific kind of gun. These items were very famous in the past and are named after the company that made them.
n. a brand of typewriter or firearm produced by the E. Remington and Sons company and its successors. When used in a literary or historical context, it typically refers to the mechanical device or the weapon as a cultural icon of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He wrote his entire novel on an old Remington.
The collector spent years searching for a Remington from the 1920s that still had all its original keys.
The rhythmic clacking of the Remington provided a percussive soundtrack to the newsroom, a sound that defined the era of print journalism before the digital revolution rendered such machines obsolete.
Usually capitalized as it is a proper noun derived from a brand name.