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单词 double-barrelled
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double-barrelleddouble-barreledadj.

/dʌbəlˈbarəld/
Forms: see double adj.1 and adv. and barrelled adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: double adj.1, barrelled adj.
Etymology: < double adj.1 + barrelled adj.
1.
a. Of a firearm: Having two barrels.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of barrel(s)
long-barrelled1678
double-barrelled1709
double-barrel1807
twist-barrelled1858
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 34. ⁋5 His double-barrelled Pistols.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 95 I discharged the double-barrelled gun to the right and left.
b. Of a telescope.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [adjective] > telescope > other telescopes
Galilean1728
dialytic1839
coudé1888
autocollimating1898
Keplerian1909
double-barrelled1955
Dobsonian1980
1955 Sci. News Let. 21 May 324/2 A double-barreled telescope that can record a golf ball's flight eight miles away will go to work for the Air Force to track guided missiles.
2. figurative. Serving a double purpose; having a double reference; double, twofold.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > duality > [adjective]
twifoldc890
twinc1000
double?c1225
tway-fold1303
doublefold1382
twain1398
twin-kina1400
twinlepia1400
four-eared1514
twofold1559
bifold1590
duplar1610
binal?c1640
dual1655
binarious1656
binary system1766
dualistic1832
double-barrelled1837
twinfold1842
the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > relating to a surname > hyphenated
double-barrelled1889
1777 Maryland Jrnl. 9 Sept. The event of this double-barreled scheme has been, that the colonel and his party are defeated.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxvii. 277 This was a double-barrelled compliment.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon ii The above account..has a double-barrelled morality.
1889 Universal Rev. Nov. 345 Every one they know has a double-barrelled name and a great-grandfather of renown.
1912 W. Owen Let. 24 July (1967) 151 Your sleek Thomas, Hopkins, Dixon,..and the rest of these double-barrelled guns, whose double-barrelled names I refuse to write.
1938 Spectator 21 Jan. 75/2 The two minor groups are generally allowed..to nominate one candidate in the double-barrelled constituencies.
1959 J. P. Hughes How you got your Name vi. 103 In surnames the double-barrelled form does not appear before the eighteenth century.
1965 T. Reese Bridge Conventions 44 Double-barrelled Stayman, an extension of the Stayman Convention whereby both two clubs and two diamonds in response to 1 NT are conventional.

Derivatives

double-barrel adj. = double-banked adj.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > by type of barrel(s)
long-barrelled1678
double-barrelled1709
double-barrel1807
twist-barrelled1858
1807 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 8 Apr. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 240 Visited the treasurer, who showed me the double-barrel gun given by governor Clairborne.
1829 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) I. 313 A double-barrel gun.
double-barrel v. to make ‘double-barrelled’.Apparently an isolated use.
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1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xii. 49 He double-barrelled his name, (as many poor Snobs do) and instead of T. Sniffle,..came out,..as Rev. T. D'Arcy Sniffle.
double-barrel n. (a) a double-barrelled gun; (b) a hyphenated surname (cf. 2).
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > surname > hyphenated
double-barrel1811
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [noun] > type of firearm > others
full bore1622
spingard1671
ordered armsa1689
double-barrel1811
smooth-bore1812
stern-chaser1835
shunt1864
shunt (rifled) gun1864
sidelocka1865
firer1885
slide action1921
Mike-Mike1969
multicalibre1986
1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 556 Double-barrels..miss their mark.
1952 A. Powell Buyer's Market iii. 178 The double-barrel..has really no basis whatever, beyond the surname of a remote ancestor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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adj.1709
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