mitrailleuse

[ mee-tra-yœz ]

/ mi traˈyœz /

a machine gun.

Words nearby mitrailleuse

The doctor said that for the warfare of today reliance is mainly upon the mitrailleuse, which fires 300 shots a minute.

A Journey Through France in War Time |Joseph G. Butler, Jr.
From it came a heavy rifle and mitrailleuse fire, but we did not respond.

A Soldier of the Legion |Edward Morlae
We let loose with mitrailleuse, rifle, field-gun, everything that would throw death.

The Valley of Vision |Henry Van Dyke
If you hear rifle fire or mitrailleuse fire on the trenches, then go, as fast as you can run.

Young Hilda at the Wars |Arthur Gleason

A bridge had to be blown up, and the whole place was an inferno of mitrailleuse and rifle fire.

Tommy Atkins at War |James Alexander Kilpatrick

mitrailleuse

/ (ˌmɪtraɪˈɜːz) /

an early form of breech-loading machine gun having several parallel barrels

any French machine gun

C19: from French, from mitraille small shot, from Old French mistraille pieces of money, from mite ²