multibarreln.adj.
/ˌmʌltɪˈbarəl/, /ˌmʌltɪˈbarl̩/, U.S. /ˌməltiˈbɛr(ə)l/; see also multi- comb. form. A. n.
A gun with more than one barrel. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > other small arms
long gun1530
currier1558
crabut1626
long arm1675
bullet-guna1701
hand cannon1752
wall-gun1812
walking-stick gun1823
shoulder gun1824
safety gun1825
gas gun1856
self-cocker1857
bolt action1871
snap action gun1875
saddle gun1886
multibarrel1899
dane gun1900
clip-loader1901
pump-action1923
sleeve gun1944
laser gun1961
phaser1966
magnum1970
1899 Cent. Mag. Jan. 444 The quick succession and pause of the Nordenfelt multibarrel, and the tireless automatic gun.
B. adj.
That has more than one barrel (usually of a gun or pipette).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [adjective] > attributes
buttless1828
self-cocking1837
belt size1858
stockless1886
sawed-off1898
multibarrel1899
multi-barrelled1907
sawn-off1915
1899 Times Democrat (Lima, Ohio) 1 July 5/7 The single-barrel automatic..and the multi-barrel type, in which from two to ten barrels are grouped together.
1951 G. Chinn Machine Gun I. i. i. 12/2 In 1339 mention is first made of a new type of firearm called the ‘ribauld’ or ‘ribauldequin’. This was a primitive multibarrel affair that consisted of several iron tubes, so arranged as to fire simultaneously.
1988 Nature 27 Oct. 816/1 In some experiments multibarrel micropipettes were attached to the recording pipette.
1996 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 263 804/2 Focal stimulation of olfactory cilia was obtained by pressure ejecting the odourant solutions from multi-barrel glass pipettes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1899