Gatling Gun Definition

gatliŋ
noun
An early kind of machine gun having a cluster of barrels designed to be successively discharged automatically when rotated about an axis.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gatling Gun

Noun

Singular:
Gatling gun
Plural:
gatling-guns

Origin of Gatling Gun

  • Named after its inventor, Richard Jordan Gatling.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Richard Jordan Gatling

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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