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swivel gun
noun
- a gun mounted on a pedestal so that it can be turned from side to side or up and down.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of swivel gun1
Example Sentences
The chamber in which they were found was a separate piece of a breach-loading swivel gun that was likely kept on the top deck because it was used as an anti-personnel weapon, Farrell said.
Gentle light illuminates a circa-1780 flintlock pistol, a 19th-century swivel gun, mortars, glossy cannonballs and other projectiles.
Just 17 days after the Brisbens purchased the salvage rights and formed their company, they recovered the only bronze swivel gun ever found on the 1715 Fleet.
It’ll take a bit of time for your crew to throw the hooks, so you can man a swivel gun and do some damage, or you can dive into the water.
In Victoria the Legislature has by enactment declared the swivel gun an illegal instrument, and since its abolition the ducks are returning in hundreds to their old breeding-grounds.
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