Etymology

mitrailleuse

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Today it means: A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly. Full definition →

French mitrailleuse
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  1. French · borrowed frommitrailleuse
  2. English todaymitrailleuse

From French mitrailleuse, from mitrailler (“to fire grapeshot”).

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