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double-barrels

double-barrels is the plural of double-barrel.

Meaning of double-barrel

Noun

double-barrel (plural double-barrels)

  1. (informal) A double-barrelled gun, now especially a double-barrelled shotgun.
    • Five minutes before one — brought down a moth / With my new double-barrel — stew'd the thighs, / And made a very tolerable broth […]1819 (date written), John Keats, “The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass....

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Questions about double-barrels

What is double-barrels the plural of?
Double-barrels is the plural of double-barrel.

Words near double-barrels in the dictionary

  1. double-barreling
  2. double-barrelled
  3. double-barrelled shotgun
  4. double-barrelled shotguns
  5. double-barrelling
  6. double-barrels
  7. double-bass
  8. double-basses
  9. double-bassist
  10. double-bassists
  11. double-bazinga

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