Etymology

Gatling gun

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Named after American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling.

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