Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nordenfelt gun

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables: nor-den-felt -gun
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of organ gun having a row of up to twelve barrels, and fired by pulling a lever back and forth, with ammunition fed by gravity through a chute for each barrel.

Etymology

Named after the Swedish steel producer and banker Thorsten Nordenfelt, who funded its development.

Inflected Forms

Nordenfelt guns (plural)

Questions

What does nordenfelt gun mean?: A kind of organ gun having a row of up to twelve barrels, and fired by pulling a lever back and forth, with ammunition fed by gravity through a chute for each barrel.
Where does nordenfelt gun come from?: Named after the Swedish steel producer and banker Thorsten Nordenfelt, who funded its development.

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