organ gun

Definitions

A large, portable firearm normally supported by wheels, in which bullets may be fired from a row of several tubes in succession; it was chiefly used from the 14th to the 17th century.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“The attempts to re-invest the artillery with its one-time superiority were directed in two channels: one aimed at perfecting shrapnel, which had been rather neglected up to this time (England, Prussia, Austria), while the other resurrected the mediaeval idea of the "barrel-organ gun," with a view⟳ of assembling a number⟳ of rifle barrels and of combining thereby the accuracy of the small arm with the moral effect of canister.”

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