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gatling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gatling has 1 sense
- gatling(n = noun.person) richard jordan gatling - United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903); Array is a kind of artificer, discoverer, inventor
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gatling, n. (in full Gatling gun) a machine-gun with clustered barrels.
Etymology
R. J. Gatling, Amer. inventor d. 1903
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