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Gatling

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Gat·ling  (gtlng), Richard Jordan 1818-1903.
American firearms inventor of the first rapid-firing gun (patented 1862).
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Noun1.Gatling - United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)Gatling - United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)


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He might fairly have been compared, in action, to a rapid-firing Gatling gun; while Smith was a hundred-ton cannon, and Lockwood was the maker of the ammunition.
 
 
 
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