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‖ mitrailleuse|mitrɑjøz|
[Fr., fem. agent-n. formed as prec.]
A breech-loading machine-gun with a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that it can discharge small missiles simultaneously in large quantities with great rapidity, or singly in rapid succession.
It was introduced into the French army about 1868 and first brought into service in the Franco-German war of 1870–1. There are many varieties of this gun, with qualifying names prefixed.
1870Times 23 July 10/3 The Emperor..is reported to have constantly had the mitrailleuses brought to St. Cloud to be tested under his own eyes... The mitrailleuse is, perhaps, relied upon to do for France in the present war what in the last the needle-gun did for Prussia. 1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §34 Our mechanical contrivance will only make the age of the mitrailleuse more abhorred than that of the guillotine. 1902R. W. Chambers Maids of Paradise i. 14 A battery of Montigny mitrailleuses passed. |