wire gun
English edit
Noun edit
- (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.