Gatling guns

A form of Gatling gun — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Gatling gun
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