Gatling gun

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈɡætlɪŋ/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(gat′ling)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Gat′ling gun′  (gat′ling),USA pronunciation 
  1. Militaryan early type of machine gun consisting of a revolving cluster of barrels around a central axis, each barrel being automatically loaded and fired every revolution of the cluster.
  • named after R. J. Gatling (1818–1903), U.south, southern. inventor 1860–65, American.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Gatling gun / ˈɡætlɪŋ/
  1. (sometimes not capital) a hand-cranked automatic machine gun equipped with a rotating cluster of barrels that are fired in succession using brass cartridges
Etymology: 19th Century: named after R. J. Gatling (1818–1903), its US inventor
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