单词 | double-barrelled |
释义 | double-barrelleddouble-barreledadj. 1. a. Of a firearm: Having two barrels. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1709 |
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