mitrailleuse
Americannoun
noun
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an early form of breech-loading machine gun having several parallel barrels
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any French machine gun
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Etymology
Origin of mitrailleuse
C19: from French, from mitraille small shot, from Old French mistraille pieces of money, from mite ²
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Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 3rd Infantry Division: General Dumont. 1st Brigade: General Bordas. 52nd and 72nd Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Bittard des Portes. 82nd and 83rd Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Rose. 1st Brigade: General Bellecourt. 5th Chasseur battalion. 13th and 43rd Line Regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Pradier. 64th and 98th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
After which came a volley of low toned Latin phrases, rattling in the stillness like the popping of a mitrailleuse.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
"At what range is the head of yonder column?" he asked, addressing the captain in charge of the mitrailleuse section.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Lacretelle. 1st Brigade: General Bernier Maligny. 14th, 20th, and 30th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Marquisan. 3rd and 4th marching regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
And when now the 1st Battalion of the 56th Regiment advanced from Point du Jour, its drums beating the charge, the French carried away their mitrailleuses and evacuated Les Mortes Aures.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
A battery of Montigny mitrailleuses passed, grotesque, hump-backed little engines of destruction.
From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
At Périgueux, the workmen of the railway station seized the mitrailleuses.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
Dennis Deventer, who never missed anything in the works, noted the men's behaviour, but continued his exposition of the secret of preventing the jamming of the mitrailleuses.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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