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| mi·trail·leuse [ mtrə yz ] (plural mi·trail·leuses) |
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early machine gun: an early machine gun with 35 barrels that could be fired simultaneously or in sequence, mounted on a carriage drawn by four horses. The gun was developed in France and first used in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
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| [Late 19th century. < French mitrailler "fire mitraille" < mitraille "small money, pieces of metal," alteration of Old French mitaille< mite, a small coin] |
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