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mitrailleuse

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mitrailleuse [ˌmɪtraɪˈɜːz]
n
1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an early form of breech-loading machine gun having several parallel barrels
2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) any French machine gun
[from French, from mitraille small shot, from Old French mistraille pieces of money, from mite2]


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To a casual listener in the late 19th century, such an idea would probably have seemed preposterous, even though rapid-fire weapons were no novelty; the French and Belgians had deployed the first mitrailleuse in the 1850s, and the American Civil War saw the deployment of the famous Gatling gun.
Les ALPC comprennent aussi bien les armes " lE[umlaut]gE res ", employE[umlaut]es par un petit groupe de personnes et transportE[umlaut]es par un vE[umlaut]hicule lE[umlaut]ger, comme la mitrailleuse lourde ou le lance-grenades, que les armes de petit calibre individuelles comme les revolvers, les fusils, ou les mitraillettes.
The daughter of influential broodmare Mitrailleuse, Volley was a half-sister to T rial By Fire - dam of top NH sire Deep Run, and to the granddams of Classic winners One In A Million, Full Dress and Swiftfoot (also by Run The Gauntlet).
 
 
 
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