mitrailleur

From the French term mitrailleuse.

mitrailleur (plural mitrailleurs)

1. (Britain, military, obsolete) A rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
2. (Britain, military, obsolete) The person in charge of such a weapon.

• battery gun (American English)

• Gatling gun

• mitraille
• mitraillade
• mitrailleuse

Used in the 19th century to refer to the semi-automatic rapid-fire volley guns, coffee mill guns, organ guns and the like, now frequently called hand-cranked machine guns

Borrowed from French mitrailleur.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.treːˈjøːr/, (less common) /ˌmi.traːi̯ˈjøːr/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧trail‧leur
• Rhymes: -øːr

mitrailleur m (plural mitrailleurs, diminutive mitrailleurtje n)

1. machine-gun [from mid 19th c.]

• machinegeweer

• mitrailleuse

• IPA^(key): /mi.tʁɑ.jœʁ/

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mitrailleur m (plural mitrailleurs, feminine mitrailleuse)

1. machine-gunner

• “mitrailleur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).