mitrailleuse

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So I do,–but only that I may go off with a bang by and by, � la mitrailleuse.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

"At what range is the head of yonder column?" he asked, addressing the captain in charge of the mitrailleuse section.

From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

The two Westphalian regiments advanced steadily under the storm of shell and mitrailleuse fire till they suddenly reached the edge of a deep ravine hitherto unseen.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

Hope sprang into their minds that they might capture the mitrailleuse abandoned halfway up.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

The chassepot, a new breech-loading rifle, immensely superior to the Prussian needle-gun, was issued; the artillery trains were thoroughly overhauled, and a new machine-gun, the mitrailleuse, from which much was expected, introduced.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various