gatling gun

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   an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated

   Broadermachine gun

Questions about gatling gun

What does gatling gun mean?

gatling gun means "an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated".

Is gatling gun a common word?

gatling gun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.