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Gatling gun
[gat-ling]
noun
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.
Gatling gun
/ ˈɡæٱɪŋ /
noun
a hand-cranked automatic machine gun equipped with a rotating cluster of barrels that are fired in succession using brass cartridges
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Gatling gun1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Gatling gun1
Example Sentences
Guardsmen — about 1,000 weekend warriors — stood in the hot sun, rifles at the ready alongside the Gatling gun they brought, facing the railroad strikers camped out in the depot with their wives and children.
So it was a Gatling gun of wins, just one after another.
“It’s the freedom state of Florida. If they disagree with the governor, he brings out the Gatling gun.”
Video from the engagement appears to show one drone engaged by an air defense system known as a C-RAM, which fires a six-barreled Gatling gun up to 75 rounds per second.
He ascended to the NFL beat at the Washington Times, and one colleague later wrote that Hurney’s “prose had the lyrical quality of a Gatling gun, but he could find news.”
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