mitrailleur

From the French term mitrailleuse.

mitrailleur (plural mitrailleurs)

1. (UK, military, obsolete) A rapid-fire team-served musket or rifle.
2. (UK, military, obsolete) The person in charge of such a weapon.

Used in the 19th century to refer to the semi-automatic rapid-fire volley guns, coffee mill guns, organ guns and the like, now frequently called hand-cranked machine guns

• battery gun (American English)

• Gatling gun

• mitraille
• mitraillade
• mitrailleuse

Borrowed from French mitrailleur (“machine-gunner”), the different meaning is perhaps influenced by fusil-mitrailleur.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmi.treːˈjøːr/, (less common) /ˌmi.traːi̯ˈjøːr/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧trail‧leur
• Rhymes: -øːr

mitrailleur m (plural mitrailleurs, diminutive mitrailleurtje n)

1. machine-gun [from mid 19th c.]

   De mitrailleur was gemonteerd op het voertuig.

   The machine gun was mounted on the vehicle.

   Hij laadde de mitrailleur met munitie.

   He loaded the machine gun with ammunition.

   Ze trainde om een mitrailleur te bedienen.

   She trained to operate a machine gun.

• machinegeweer

• mitrailleurgeweer
• mitrailleursnest
• mitrailleurvuur

• mitrailleren
• mitrailleuse

• → Indonesian: mitraliur
• → West Frisian: mitrailleur

From mitrailler +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /mi.tʁa.jœʁ/, /mi.tʁɑ.jœʁ/

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mitrailleur m (plural mitrailleurs, feminine mitrailleuse)

1. machine-gunner

• “mitrailleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.