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A gun fired at intervals of a minute, especially at a funeral.
‘A coffin with the word LIBERTY in capital letters engraved upon it, was borne to the cemetery on the shoulders of eight men, while the minute gun was fired.’
‘The army death reveille, the minute gun, the tolling of bells for the dead, the tocsin, etc., all have their roots in the attributes assigned to the primitive drum.’