Synonyms for gatling guns
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : gat-ling |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈgæt lɪŋ |
Définition of gatling guns
Origin :- 1870, named for designer Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903); patented by 1862 but not used in American Civil War until the Petersburg campaign of June 1864 as an independent initiative by U.S. Gen. Ben Butler.
- For the first time in this war, the Gatling gun was used by Butler in repelling one of Beauregard's midnight attacks. Dispatches state that it was very destructive, and rebel prisoners were very curious to know whether it was loaded all night and fired all day. ... Gatling, like Mann, has found it very difficult to get fair trials of his gun, and to have it introduced by the War Department, for the Government leaves all such things to the Ordnance Office, and that office is under the control of old fogies, who work by red tape, and who are slow to perceive the value of ordnance improvements, and still slower to introduce them into practice. ["Scientific American," June 18, 1864]
- As in machine gun : noun fast-action gun
- It began to revolve rapidly, crackling like a battery of Gatling guns.
- Extract from : « Dick Hamilton's Fortune » by Howard R. Garis
- As more power was applied they roared like batteries of Gatling guns.
- Extract from : « The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly » by Margaret Burnham
- It is Christian countries that build ironclads and make cannon, gatling guns, deadly rifles, and terrible explosives.
- Extract from : « Flowers of Freethought » by George W. Foote
- Victory usually follows, for the labor group cannot withstand the combined assault of gatling guns and injunctions.
- Extract from : « War of the Classes » by Jack London
- He sent the Dartaway onward at a good rate of speed, the engine making a noise like a battery of gatling guns.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Air » by Edward Stratemeyer
- The air seemed to vibrate under the sound as if a battery of gatling guns had been discharged.
- Extract from : « The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise » by Margaret Burnham
- High walls surround the whole, patrolled by watchful guards and mounted with gatling guns.
- Extract from : « The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines » by Isabel Anderson
- An elderly woman stepped up to the Lieutenant and said: "I'd like mighty well to see some of the Gatling guns."
- Extract from : « The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair » by Charles McCellan Stevens (AKA 'Quondam')
- Three men with gatling guns could kill off an army before it got in sight.
- Extract from : « Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel » by Stanley R. Matthews
- Two of the trucks, fitted with iron plating and sand bags as a protecting cover, carried one Nordenfelt and two Gatling guns.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 » by Edwin A. Pratt
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