Meanings (ES + gloss)
ametralladora / metralladora Gatling (gatlin) • cañón Gatling (gatlin)
A type of repeating firearm with several barrels on a rotating frame, in use from the 1860s to the 1910s, providing fully automatic fire similar to that of modern machine guns and autocannons.
They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap.
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