Sentence examples for multiple barrels from inspiring English sources

Some early versions of the revolver, known as "pepperboxes," featured multiple barrels in a single cylindrical unit that revolved around a central spindle.

A chariot fitted with enormous whirling blades, slicing men in half or cutting off their legs, leaving pieces scattered; guns with multiple barrels arranged like organ pipes to increase the speed and intensity of firing; a colossal missile-launching crossbow.

Alternative arrangements included multiple barrels, multiple breeches (e.g., harmonica guns or revolving cylinder rifles), or the loading of several shots into a single barrel (superposed loading) discharged with a movable lock.

Systems with multiple barrels such as Gatling guns can have rates of fire of more than several thousand rounds per minute.

If you are chaining multiple barrels together, one of them should have a hose attached that can drain off the overflow.

The walkway around it connects a medley of bright open-plan and cellular offices, while the hollow is decorated with four bizarre pods suspended from the multiple barrel-vaults of the ceiling and projected from the umbrella-like internal steel frame that braces the lightweight exterior walls.

At the same time, the power of antiaircraft defenses, in the form of missiles and radar-guided, multiple-barrel automatic cannon, increased by leaps and bounds.

He abandoned the idea of a multiple barreled revolver and opted for a single fixed barrel design with a rotating cylinder.

Like many scientific and technological breakthroughs, it happened by accident: after Colt dropped out of school, he was packed off by his parents, at age 16, to work as a crew member on a Boston brig, where, the story goes, he observed that the locking mechanism of the ship's wheel might also be used to house multiple, revolving barrels of a pistol.

All enclosures were similar in having ten A-frame houses, multiple suspended barrels, swings and several perches.

The lower bib can also be used to connect multiple rain barrels together for a larger water reservoir.