minute gun

1. 1.

   (military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)

   Broadergun

   military

Questions about minute gun

What does minute gun mean?

minute gun means "(military) gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral)".

Is minute gun a common word?

minute 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.