wire gun

noun

A former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.

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Meanings

nounwire gun (plural wire guns)

plural wire guns

  1. engineeringA former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.

    Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich - even from the north; among others, long wire guns of ninety-five tons from Woolwich.

    1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 126
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