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mi·trailleur
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Mitrailleurnoun
one who serves a mitrailleuse
Etymology: [F.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
mitrailleur
A gun in which several barrels are combined in order to produce a greater effect by the rapid succession of a number of shots. Mitrailleures existed as early as the 14th century. They were called killing-organs at that time. The Scaligers at the end of the 14th century, the Protestant princes of Germany in the Smalkaldian war, and Austria in the war against Turkey, used this kind of gun. But the ancient mitrailleur differs from the modern both in dimensions and in the positions of the barrels. A peculiar kind of mitrailleur was the espingol, each barrel being loaded with several shots, which, by a slowly-burning charge, were discharged one after the other. The espingol was used not only in the Middle Ages, but also recently,—by the Danes in 1848-50, and 1863-64. At the storming of Düppel the Prussians took about thirty such guns. In modern times the term has been specifically applied to certain battery guns employed by the French in the Franco-Prussian war. (See Battery Gun.) In the U. S. Light Artillery Tactics the term mitrailleur is applied to the Gatling gun.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of mitrailleur in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of mitrailleur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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