wire gun

noun

wire gun

noun

1

Engineering, Government, Military, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Politics, Tools, War, Weaponry A former type of canon the construction of which included an internal layer of wire windings.

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.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 126:

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