tachanka means A horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart or open wagon with the gun installed in the back. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TACHANKA — [Noun] A light, open, horse-drawn cart fitted with a swivel-mounted machine gun. From Russian тача́нка (tačánka) or Ukrainian тача́нка (tačánka), a diminutive form of та́чка (táčka, "wheelbarrow, cart"). Unlike a technical—a modern, motorized improvisation—or a gun carriage—a robust, purpose-built artillery mount—the tachanka is a hybrid of pastoral transport and industrial firepower, a creature of an interstitial age. It is the creak of ungreased axles beneath the stutter of a Maxim gun, the smell of horse sweat mingling with cordite, and the jarring percussion transmitted through rough-hewn planks into the driver's spine. A fleeting, brutal poetry before the mechanized monotony of modern war.
noun
- A horse-drawn machine gun, usually a cart or open wagon with the gun installed in the back.