mitrailleuse
Americannoun
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mitrailleuses
plural
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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By the time I reach the sidewalk they were moving off, some of the men helping the dogs with the mitrailleuse.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
These were designed to retard German scouting parties or halt German mitrailleuse automobiles.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
Placing my camera by the side of the mitrailleuse, I sat by my chauffeur, and we started off for the French lines.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Geoffrey H. Malins
"How many mitrailleuse have you at the railroad?"
From Young Hilda at the Wars by Arthur Gleason
The chassepot, a new breech-loading rifle, immensely superior to the Prussian needle-gun, was issued; the artillery trains were thoroughly overhauled, and a new machine-gun, the mitrailleuse, from which much was expected, introduced.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Here they had erected formidable works, and were reported to be hard at work mounting guns and mitrailleuses there.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A hundred paces to the right of this German skirmish line, two mitrailleuses had been skillfully thrust forward some fifty yards in advance, and concealed in small trenches hurriedly dug.
From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood
Perraud of the same regiment, having noticed that the soldiers of a section of men upon whom his mitrailleuses were firing were wearing red trousers, ordered the firing to cease.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
All Vinoy had been able to do was to place a few posts along the routes of Châtillon and Sèvres, and protect the approaches to the Assembly by some mitrailleuses.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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