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Definition of Gatling
1. Noun. United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatling
Literary usage of Gatling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1871)
"The first gatling gun was made in 1862, and was publicly exhibited in Indianapolis
... In the following year Dr. gatling sent a letter of particulars to tho ..."
2. The History of the North-west Rebellion of 1885: Comprising a Full and by Charles Pelham Mulvany (1886)
"AS the gatling gun, as well as Lieutenant Howard, the gallant officer who commanded
... Of this class of arms, there is none that excels the gatling gun in ..."
3. Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery by William Freeland Fullam, Thomas Charles Hart (1905)
"The Colt and gatling guns, described in the preceding chapter, are supplied with
... A gatling on its field carriage is shown in the preceding chapter; ..."
4. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"gatling guns, cannon, and dynamite bombs looked down upon us from the roof, and
I doubt not private detectives were stationed here and there along the ..."
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