Hotchkissn.
/ˈhɒtʃkɪs/, U.S. /ˈhɑtʃˌkɪs/ attributive. Designating certain firearms invented by Hotchkiss or manufactured by the company he established, esp. a carriage-mounted cannon with a set of revolving barrels, and also machine-guns developed by his successors.
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1861 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 24 July The public has read accounts of the Sawyer, and James, and the Hotchkiss cannon, but the guns which have received such names are common rifled cannon.
1878 W. Morgan-Brown Brit. Patent 3017 This Invention consists in several important improvements on the Hotchkiss revolving cannon and other machine guns.
1886 Harper's Mag. Oct. 793/2 The types adopted by the United States navy are the Hotchkiss revolving cannon and rapid-firing single-shot guns.
1900 Daily News 25 June 3/3 We secured a Hotchkiss gun, 500 rounds of pom-pom ammunition.
1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) xxix. 148 The Frenchman began by presenting six Hotchkiss automatics complete with instructors.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. V. 676/2 The Hotchkiss light machine-gun..was adopted for cavalry use.
2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 76/2 Victory Green..has four old cannons retrieved from Port Louis and a more modern Hotchkiss gun that is still fired on important holidays.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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