gatling

1. 1.

   United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)

   SynonymsRichard Jordan Gatling

   Broaderinventor

Other forms of gatling

plural

gatlings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gatling

What does gatling mean?

gatling means "United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903)".

How many syllables are in gatling?

gatling has 2 syllables: gat-ling. The stress falls on "gat". In IPA it is /ˈɡætlɪŋ/.

What is another word for gatling?

Close synonyms include Richard Jordan Gatling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gatling a common word?

gatling is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.