Gatling gun

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈɡætlɪŋ ˌɡʌn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.
  2. Any of various later weapons with a similar concept of operation (spinning a rotating set of barrels). broadly,slang
    — Near-synonyms: minigun, autocannon

词形变化

Gatling guns plural

词源

Named after American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling.
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