Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A machine gun having a cluster of barrels that are fired in sequence as the cluster is rotated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
gun , similar to a modernmachine gun , with severalbarrels on arotating frame.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Richard Jordan Gatling.]
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Named after its inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling.
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Examples
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He had twice brought down running antelope with his pistol—most of the Rangers couldn’t have hit a running antelope with a rifle, or even a Gatling gun.
Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995
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He had twice brought down running antelope with his pistol—most of the Rangers couldn’t have hit a running antelope with a rifle, or even a Gatling gun.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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