Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The barrel or tube of a gun.—

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Examples

  • 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.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • And at the far end of the gun-barrel, beyond the pan of ice, I placed a small iron pot.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Moosu, and the gooseneck, and the gun-barrel, and the copper kettle.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Goals from Javier Hernandez and Cuauhtemoc Blanco have left abject France staring down the gun-barrel

    World Cup 2010: France v Mexico - as it happened 2010

  • 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.

    Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010

  • 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.

    Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010

  • 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.

    Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Reform Andrew Peaple 2010

  • Last year he held his head low, his skin was gun-barrel blue, and he grimaced most of the day.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive Jack Canfield 2010

  • 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.

    Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010

  • 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.

    Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010

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