organ gun
English
editEtymology
editAn organ gun illustrated in Konrad Keyser’s work Bellifortis, a 15th-century manual of military technology.
The machine infernale or infernal machine, a homemade 25-barrel organ gun built by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi and used in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis Philippe I of France on 28 July 1835. The weapon is now displayed at the Musée des Archives Nationales in Paris.
From organ gun. The multiple barrels of the device were thought to resemble the pipes of a pipe organ.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɔːɡ(ə)n ˈɡʌn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɔɹɡ(ə)n ˈɡʌn/
- Rhymes: -ʌn
- Hyphenation: or‧gan gun
Noun
editorgan gun (plural organ guns)
- (firearms, 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.
- Synonyms: infernal machine, mitrailleur, rabauld, ribauldequin, ribaudkin, ribault
- 1911, William Balck, “VI. Machine Guns”, in Tactics, Volume 1: Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry[1], page 259:
- 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 of assembling a number of rifle barrels and of combining thereby the accuracy of the small arm with the moral effect of canister.
Hypernyms
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editTranslations
editportable firearm in which bullets may be fired from a row of several tubes in succession
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References
edit- ^ “organ gun, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2023.
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edit- ribauldequin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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