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- adj. having one barrel
Examples
“The single-barrelled Morgan was offered a staff job on Bizarre in 1988, becoming editor of the column within a year.”
“The 12-member group took away a single-barrelled breach-loading gun and Rs. 54,000 in cash from the house.”
“On the bench lay a single-barrelled gun; in the corner lay a heap of rags; two great pots stood near the oven.”
“We had only gone a few paces when a rather wretched - looking setter-dog ran out from behind a bushy willow to meet us, and behind him appeared a man of middle height, in a blue and much-worn greatcoat, a yellow waistcoat, and pantaloons of a nondescript grey colour, hastily tucked into high boots full of holes, with a red handkerchief round his neck, and a single-barrelled gun on his shoulder.”
“He owned the dozen or so head of puny cattle which grazed in the savannah, a plantation of cassava, some banana and mango trees, a dog, and, unique in the neighbourhood, a single-barrelled, breech-loading shotgun.”
“The only armament, if such it could be called, that it carried was a pair of insignificant little guns, single-barrelled, one mounted for'ard of the bridge, the other on the poop.”
“The only gun he had to bring was a single-barrelled muzzle-loader which had belonged to his father.”
“Sam had a large horse pistol and a butcher knife; Jack had a revolver; Abe had a double-barrelled pistol and a large knife; Jim had a single-barrelled pistol and counted on "blowing a man down if any one touched" him.”
“Bill also had a single-barrelled pistol, and when he started resolved to "come through or die.”
“As this flashed across his mind, he threw the rifle down and drew from his belt a single-barrelled pistol, with which he made at the warrior who was so safely throwing his arrows into his companion.”
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