mitrailleuse
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French mitrailleuse, from mitrailler (“to fire grapeshot”).
Pronunciation[edit]
IPA(key): /ˌmiːtɹəˈjɜz/, /ˈmiːtɹəˌjɜz/
Noun[edit]
mitrailleuse (plural mitrailleuses)
- (historical, military) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
rapidly firing breech loading gun with multiple barrels
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Further reading[edit]
- mitrailleuse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From mitrailler + -euse.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)
- machine gun
- Coordinate terms: fusil-mitrailleur (“light machine gun”), mitraillette (“submachine gun”)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: mitrailleuse
- → Finnish: mitraljöösi
- → Ottoman Turkish: مترالیوز (mitralyöz)
- Turkish: mitralyöz
- → Portuguese: metralhadora (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian: mitraljez
Noun[edit]
mitrailleuse f (plural mitrailleuses)
- female equivalent of mitrailleur (“machine-gunner”)
Further reading[edit]
- “mitrailleuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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