1) Early machine gun 2) Multi-barrel machine gun
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A mitrailleuse (mitʁajøz; from French mitraille, `grapeshot`) is a type of volley gun with multiple barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either multiple rounds at once, or several in rapid succession. The earliest true mitrailleuse was invented in 1851 by Belgian Army Captain Fafschamps, 10 years before the advent of the Gatling gun. It was .....
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• (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
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(from the article `small arm`) The French mitrailleuse was also a multibarreled weapon, but it used a loading plate that contained a cartridge for each of its 25 barrels. The ...
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Mi`tra`illeuse' noun [ French, from
mitrailler to fire grapeshot, from
mitraille old iron, grapeshot, dim. of Old French
mite a mite.]
(Mil.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simul...
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The Mitrailleuse was a machine-gun introduced in France shortly before the Franco-German War of 1870-1871. It consisted of a number of rifled barrels, generally thirty-seven, and was mounted similarly to an ordinary field-piece.
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