Gatling gun
an early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
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How to use Gatling gun in a sentence
Yo' dun work yo' snowballs lik da was comin' from a Gatling gun!
The Rover Boys on the Farm | Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)Next he bought a perfect Gatling-gun of an echo in Oregon, and it cost a fortune, I can tell you.
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Ef it's sport ye want, get a single-shot rifle, ef it's destruction, get a Gatling-gun.
Two Little Savages | Ernest Thompson SetonYou couldnt get me away with a Gatling gun, said Tom, grimly.
Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch | Alice B. EmersonA Gatling gun was placed in position nearby, and a detail of sharpshooters was stationed where they could command the streets.
Violence and the Labor Movement | Robert Hunter
British Dictionary definitions for Gatling gun
/ (ˈɡætlɪŋ) /
a hand-cranked automatic machine gun equipped with a rotating cluster of barrels that are fired in succession using brass cartridges
Origin of Gatling gun
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