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Gatling gun   /gˈætlɪŋ gən/   Listen
Gatling gun

noun
1.
An early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated.





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"Gatling gun" Quotes from Famous Books



... According to the new school of morals, woman is not competent to distinguish between right and wrong, and even wives of mature years are sometimes "led astray" by "fell destroyers," whom the "injured husband" feels in duty bound to chase around the world, if need be, with a Gatling gun. Instances where "designing villains" have "invaded the sanctity of the home" are multiplying, and while the world is not ready to forgive the erring woman it is daily asked to anathematize her paramour and stand between her ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... another. When I reached the slope he was a mile farther on. I began to think he was a mirage. For a wounded animal, with two five-hundred-grain shells in his shoulder, he was the most astonishing example of vitality I have ever seen. He would have been safe against a Gatling gun. There were more low trees a mile farther on, and I plodded doggedly on in the hope of getting a little relief from the sun. As I drew near I noticed a rhino standing under the trees, but he was not the wounded one. I decided that the shade was insufficient for ...
— In Africa - Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country • John T. McCutcheon


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