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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The barrel or tube of a gun.—
Examples
“And at the far end of the gun-barrel, beyond the pan of ice, I placed a small iron pot.”
“The brew was singing merrily when they began shoving aside the skin flap and crawling in, and I was heaping cracked ice on the gun-barrel.”
“Moosu, and the gooseneck, and the gun-barrel, and the copper kettle.”
“Any move by China to allow some yuan appreciation would be more a vindication of the Treasury's softly-softly approach than the gun-barrel diplomacy coming from elsewhere in Washington.”
The Wall Street Journal: Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Reform
“Goals from Javier Hernandez and Cuauhtemoc Blanco have left abject France staring down the gun-barrel”
The Guardian: World Cup 2010: France v Mexico - as it happened
“Last year he held his head low, his skin was gun-barrel blue, and he grimaced most of the day.”
“Anderson completes a gun-barrel straight maiden, ever ball on or outside off stump.”
“The last time I got him out I wasn't even bowling well: gun-barrel straight, not that quick, but he kept playing and missing.”
The Guardian: The Ashes 2010: England fans unnerved by absence of Australia greats
“What I saw the other night was just gun-barrel bowling.”
“At the other end of the gun-barrel, 77 percent of Afghans in the latest BBC poll say the on-going US air strikes are "unacceptable," and the US troops should only remain if they are going to provide reconstruction assistance rather than bombs.”
Johann Hari: Everything You Have Been Told About Afghanistan Is Wrong: The Three Great Fallacies
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