Gatling gun

English thumb|mechanism within a Gatling gun thumb|Gatling gun model 1862 Type II thumb|Gatling gun model 1862 Type II Etymology en American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling = 1. Pronunciation en /ˈɡætlɪŋ ˌɡʌn/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-Gatling gun.wav US Noun en Q272975 A type of repeating firearm with several barrels on a rotating frame, in use from the 1860s to the 1910s, providing fully automatic fire similar to that of modern machine guns and autocannons. en They say that the Gatling who invented Gatling guns imagined that they would reduce the scale of human warfare, poor old chap. en slang for modern minigun or similar en slang loosely Any of various later weapons with a similar concept of operation (spinning a rotating set of barrels). en minigun autocannon en I stood in the door of an AC-130 and ran a Gatling gun. So it goes. What more is there to say about it? Translations a type of repeating firearm similar to a machine gun Bulgarian: bg кърте́чница Га́тлинг f Catalan: ca metralladora Gatling f Chinese: zh 加特林机枪, zh 加特林機槍 Jiātèlínjī qiāng Czech: cs Gatlingův kulomet Finnish: fi gatling French: fr gatling f German: de Gatling-Kanone Japanese: ja ガトリング砲 gatoringu gan Macedonian: sq Marathi: mr गॅट्लिंग बंदूक f Norwegian: no gatlingvåpen Persian: fa مسلسل گاتلینگ mosalsal-e gâtling Polish: pl kartaczownica Gatlinga f Portuguese: pt metralhadora Gatling f, pt Gatling f Russian: ru пулемёт Га́тлинга m Serbo-Croatian: sh Гетлингов систем m Spanish: es cañón Gatling m gatlin, es ametralladora / metralladora Gatling f gatlin Swedish: sv gatlingkanon c en eponyms genericized trademarks en Firearms Weapons