Usually means: Cannon fired every sixty seconds.
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  1. minute gun: Merriam-Webster
  2. minute gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minute gun: Collins English Dictionary
  4. minute gun: Vocabulary.com
  5. minute gun: Wordnik
  6. minute gun: Wiktionary
  7. minute gun: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Minute gun, minute gun: Dictionary.com
  9. minute gun: Rhymezone
  10. minute gun: FreeDictionary.org
  11. minute gun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. minute gun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Minute Gun: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (minute gun)

▸ noun:  A gun that is fired every minute, as a signal of distress or mourning.

Similar:
mad minute, minute glass, minigun, minute repeater, metronome, micronometer, chronometer, minute of angle, minute, microsound, more...

Opposite:
hour gun, cannon, signal gun

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Similar:
mad minute, minute glass, minigun, minute repeater, metronome, micronometer, chronometer, minute of angle, minute, microsound, more...

Opposite:
hour gun, cannon, signal gun



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