mitrailleuse

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But in time of actual war its personnel was less mixed, and Chapman's letters showed him serving there contentedly as pointer of a mitrailleuse.

From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)

I pointed out to her that nothing more delicate than a mitrailleuse had yet been invented.

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

Jack fumbled for the fastenings of the airplane mitrailleuse, it being his intention to swing the gun free, so that he could turn its 135 muzzle in any quarter desired.

From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Beach, Charles Amory

To save myself from a second dive I clutched hold of the mitrailleuse.

From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.

Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 3rd Infantry Division: General Laveaucoupet. 1st Brigade: General Doens. 10th battalion of Chasseurs. 2nd and 63rd Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Michelet. 24th and 40th Line regiments.

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