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Gatling gun
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Gatling gun
n.
A machine gun having a cluster of barrels that are fired in sequence as the cluster is rotated.
[After Richard Jordan Gatling.]
Gatling gun [ˈgætlɪŋ]
n
(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a hand-cranked automatic machine gun equipped with a rotating cluster of barrels that are fired in succession using brass cartridges
[named after R. J. Gatling (1818-1903), its US inventor]
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Noun1.Gatling gun - an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotatedGatling gun - an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
machine gun - a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
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