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Gatling gun definition

☆ Gat·ling gun (gat′liŋ)

an early kind of machine gun having a cluster of barrels designed to be successively discharged automatically when rotated about an axis

Etymology: after R. J. Gatling (1818-1903), U.S. inventor

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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