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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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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. 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. 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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