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vierling

vierling noun: a long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).

Noun

vierling (plural vierlings)

  1. A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
    • The vierling gun that Alan Tuck hunts with is truly a handcrafted work of art.2009, Nebraskaland, volume 87, page 32
    • The Blaser D99 drilling can be custom made with two side-by-side shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel over them. Another variation on the multiple barrel shotgun is the vierling, which is the German word for quadruplet. A vierling has four barrels […]2015, Robert A. Sadowski, Gun Trader's Guide to Shotguns: A Comprehensive, Fully Illustrated Reference for Modern Shotguns with Current Market Values, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Vierling

Vierling (plural Vierlings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of vierling

Noun
pluralvierlings
Proper noun
pluralVierlings

Origin of vierling

From German Vierling (“gun with four barrels; quadruplet”).

Questions about vierling

What does vierling mean?
Vierling means a long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
What part of speech is vierling?
Vierling can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of vierling?
The plural of vierling is vierlings.

Words near vierling in the dictionary

  1. Vierendeel bridges
  2. Vierendeel truss
  3. Vierendeel trusses
  4. Vierkleur
  5. Vierlandian
  6. vierling
  7. vierlings
  8. Vierordt's law
  9. Vierow
  10. Vierra
  11. Vierras

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