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organ guns

organ guns is the plural of organ gun.

Meaning of organ gun

Noun

organ gun (plural organ guns)

  1. (historical) A large, portable firearm normally supported by wheels, in which bullets may be fired from a row of several tubes in succession; it was chiefly used from the 14th to the 17th century.
    • The attempts to re-invest the artillery with its one-time superiority were directed in two channels: one aimed at perfecting shrapnel, which had been rather neglected up to this time (England, Prussia, Austria), while the other resurrected the mediaeval idea of the "barrel-organ gun," with a view...1911, William Balck, “VI. Machine Guns”, in Tactics, Volume 1: Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry, page 259
    Synonyms:
    infernal machine, mitrailleur, rabauld, ribauldequin, ribaudkin, ribault

Questions about organ guns

What is organ guns the plural of?
Organ guns is the plural of organ gun.

Words near organ guns in the dictionary

  1. organ donor
  2. organ donors
  3. organ grinder
  4. organ grinders
  5. organ gun
  6. organ guns
  7. organ harmonium
  8. organ harmoniums
  9. organ harvesting
  10. organ loft
  11. organ lofts

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