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ˈdouble-ˈbarrelled, -eled, a.|-ˈbærəld|
1. a. Of a fire-arm: Having two barrels.
1709Steele Tatler No. 34 ⁋5 His double-barrelled Pistols. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 95, I discharged the double-barrelled gun to the right and left.
b. Of a telescope.
1955Sci. 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. fig. Serving a double purpose; having a double reference; double, twofold.
1777Maryland Jrnl. 9 Sept. (Th.), The event of this double-barreled scheme has been, that the colonel and his party are defeated. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, This was a double-barrelled compliment. 1841Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon ii, The above account..has a double-barrelled morality. 1889Univ. Rev. Nov. 345 Every one they know has a double-barrelled name and a great-grandfather of renown. 1912W. 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. 1938Spectator 21 Jan. 75/2 The two minor groups are generally allowed..to nominate one candidate in the double-barrelled constituencies. 1959J. P. Hughes How you got your Name vi. 103 In surnames the double-barrelled form does not appear before the eighteenth century. 1965T. 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.
So double-barrel a. = double-banked a.; n., (a) a double-barrelled gun; (b) a hyphenated surname (cf. double-barrelled a. 2 above); double-barrel v. nonce-wd., to make ‘double-barrelled’.
1807Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Mississippi (1810) 8 Apr. 240 Visited the treasurer, who showed me the double-barrel gun given by governor Clairborne. 1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 556 Double-barrels..miss their mark. 1829Fonblanque Eng. under 7 Administ. (1837) I. 313 A double-barrel gun. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xii, He double-barrelled his name, and, instead of T. Sniffle..came out..as Rev. T. D'Arcy Sniffle. 1952A. Powell Buyer's Market iii. 178 The double-barrel..has really no basis whatever, beyond the surname of a remote ancestor. |