wire gun

English

Noun

wire gun (plural wire guns)

  1. (weaponry) A former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 126:
      Guns were in rapid transit from Windsor, Portsmouth, Aldershot, Woolwich - even from the north; among others, long wire guns of ninety-five tons from Woolwich.
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