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Double-barreled   /dˈəbəl-bˈærəld/   Listen
Double-barreled

adjective
1.
Having two barrels mounted side by side.  Synonym: double-barrelled.
2.
Having two purposes; twofold.  Synonym: double-barrelled.






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"Double-barreled" Quotes from Famous Books



... killing people in the native villages, did charge before being shot at. My son Kermit and I stopped it at forty yards. Another bull elephant, also unwounded, which charged, nearly got me, as I had just fired both cartridges from my heavy double-barreled rifle in killing the bull I was after—the first wild elephant I had ever seen. The second bull came through the thick brush to my left like a steam plow through a light snowdrift, everything snapping ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... that Don Saltero is descended in a right line, not from John Tradescant, as he himself asserts, but from the memorable companion of the Knight of Mancha. Steele certifies to all the worthy citizens who travel to see the Don's rarities, that his double-barreled pistols, targets, coats of mail, his sclopeta (hand-culverin) and sword of Toledo, were left to his ancestor by the said Don Quixote; and by his ancestor to all his progeny down to Saltero. Though Steele thus goes far in favor of Don ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers



Words linked to "Double-barreled" :   single-barreled, ambiguous



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