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

The climb was a hard and rough accomplishment, with the right flank under mitrailleuse fire from Loos, and with the left exposed to fire from Pit 14A; but it was accomplished far too quickly.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 4th Infantry Division: General Levassor-Sorval. 1st Brigade: General de Marguenat. 25th and 26th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General de Chanaleilles. 28th and 70th Line regiments.

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

Then what about the mitrailleuse aboard the plane?

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

These were designed to retard German scouting parties or halt German mitrailleuse automobiles.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher