Meaning of Gatling gun | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of repeating firearm with several barrels on a rotating frame, in use from the 1860s to the 1910s, providing fully automatic fire similar to that of modern machine guns and autocannons.
2. Any of various later weapons with a similar concept of operation (spinning a rotating set of barrels).
   broadly, slang

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Examples

“They say⟳ that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce⟳ the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.”

“Near-synonyms: minigun, autocannon”

“I stood in the door of an AC-130 and ran a Gatling gun. So it goes. What more is there to say⟳ about it?”

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