單詞
mitrailleuse
英 [mi?trɑ?'j??z]
美[,mitr?'j?z]
基本信息
- n. （法）老式機槍
英文詞源
- mitrailleuse (n.)
- kind of machine gun, from French mitrailleuse (19c.), from Old French mitaille (14c.) "small coins," hence "old iron, scrap iron," then "grapeshot;" originally a diminutive of mite "a small coin" (see mite (n.2)). "For sense development it should be borne in mind that orig. guns used to be loaded with scrap iron" [Klein].
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