单词 | gatling gun |
释义 | gatling gun in British Englishkind of machinegun Gatling gun in British English (ˈɡætlɪŋ) noun (sometimes not capital) a hand-cranked automatic machine gun equipped with a rotating cluster of barrels that are fired in succession using brass cartridges Word origin C19: named after R. J. Gatling (1818–1903), its US inventorGatling gun in American English (ˈgætlɪŋ) US an early kind of machine gun having a cluster of barrels designed to be successivelydischarged automatically when rotated about an axis Word origin after R. J. Gatling (1818-1903), U.S. inventorExamples of 'gatling gun' in a sentence |
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