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double-barrelled

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double-barrelled US, double-barreled
adj
1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (of a gun) having two barrels
2. extremely forceful or vehement
3. Brit (of a surname) having hyphenated parts
4. serving two purposes; ambiguous a double-barrelled remark
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Adj.1.double-barrelled - having two barrels mounted side by side; "a double-barreled shotgun"
double-barreled
2.double-barrelled - having two purposes; twofold; "our double-barreled desire to make things profitable as well as attractive"- Louis Kronenbergers
double-barreled
ambiguous - having more than one possible meaning; "ambiguous words"; "frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy"
Translations
double-barrelled [ˈdʌblˌbærəld] ADJ
1. [gun] → de dos cañones
2. (Brit) [surname] → compuesto
double-barrelled [ˌdʌblˈbær/əld] adj (gun) → a doppia canna (Brit) (surname) → cognome m doppio
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When the story went around the water-front of how French Frank had tried to run me down with his schooner, and of how I had stood on the deck of the Razzle Dazzle, a cocked double-barrelled shotgun in my hands, steering with my feet and holding her to her course, and compelled him to put up his wheel and keep away, the water-front decided that there was something in me despite my youth.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
To this day she declares that I told her one moving anecdote as to how a musket looked into my tent at the dead of night, and how I fired a double-barrelled tiger cub at it.
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They asked him why he had not come on the previous Sunday, and he told them he had been ill; they wanted to know what was the matter with him; and Philip, to amuse them, suggested a mysterious ailment, the name of which, double-barrelled and barbarous with its mixture of Greek and Latin (medical nomenclature bristled with such), made them shriek with delight.
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