mitrailleuse
a machine gun.
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How to use mitrailleuse in a sentence
The first of these to be used prominently in warfare was the French mitrailleuse, used by France in the war of 1870-71.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousEven the automobile and auto-mitrailleuse men cannot follow them there.
My good friend of the auto-mitrailleuse smiled, rose, and buttoned up his coat.
It was called a mitrailleuse, or a gun for firing grape-shot.
Inventions of the Great War | A. Russell (Alexander Russell) BondThe words burst out from Sibley like bullets from a mitrailleuse.
Where the Path Breaks | Charles de Crspigny
British Dictionary definitions for mitrailleuse
/ (ˌmɪtraɪˈɜːz) /
an early form of breech-loading machine gun having several parallel barrels
any French machine gun
Origin of mitrailleuse
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