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Thread #78333   Message #1413338
Posted By: HuwG
17-Feb-05 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Firearms of the 1840s and 1850s
Subject: RE: BS: Firearms of the 1840s and 1850s
Incidentally, "Drilling" is the German word for "triple". It would seem to me that any three-barrelled gun could be referred to as a "Drilling" (certainly in soldier-speak).