organ gunとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

An organ gun illustrated in Konrad Kyeser’s work Bellifortis, a 15th-century manual of military technology.

The machine infernale or infernal machine, a homemade 25-barrel organ gun built by Giuseppe Marco Fieschi and used in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis Philippe I of France on 28 July 1835. The weapon is now displayed at the Musée des Archives Nationales in Paris.

From organ +‎ gun. The multiple barrels of the device were thought to resemble the pipes of a pipe organ.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɔːɡ(ə)n ˈɡʌn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɔɹɡ(ə)n ˈɡʌn/
• 韻: -ʌn
• ハイフネーション: or‧gan gun

名詞

organ gun (plural organ guns)

1. (firearms, historical) A large, portable firearm normally supported by wheels, in which bullets may be fired from a row of several tubes in succession; it was chiefly used from the 14th to the 17th century.

   Synonyms: infernal machine, mitrailleur, rabauld, ribauldequin, ribaudkin, ribault

   • 1911, William Balck, “VI. Machine Guns”, in Tactics, Volume 1: Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry‎, page 259:

     The attempts to re-invest the artillery with its one-time superiority were directed in two channels: one aimed at perfecting shrapnel, which had been rather neglected up to this time (England, Prussia, Austria), while the other resurrected the mediaeval idea of the "barrel-organ gun," with a view of assembling a number of rifle barrels and of combining thereby the accuracy of the small arm with the moral effect of canister.

上位語

• volley gun

下位語

• Nordenfelt gun

参照

Further reading

• ribauldequin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia