Gat|ling gun

Gat|ling gun
Gat|ling gun «GAT lihng»,
an early type of machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels revolving around a central axis by a hand crank. Each barrel was automatically loaded and fired during every revolution of the cluster.
[American English < Richard J. Gatling, 1818-1903, an American inventor, who perfected it]

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