Definitions
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- adjective having one barrel
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Examples
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Jointly staged by Aaron Posner, the company's artistic director, and Teller, the magician with the single-barreled name who lets his partner, Penn Jillette, do the talking, Two River's "Macbeth" is a spook show that sheds almost as much blood as Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd," and does so with equally thrilling results.
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It was single-barreled with a polished wooden butt.
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At a time when most armies had gone to automatic weaponry, these Boxer marksmen had old twelve-gauge single-barreled muzzle-loading rifles with a small ramrod tube nestled under each barrel.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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At a time when most armies had gone to automatic weaponry, these Boxer marksmen had old twelve-gauge single-barreled muzzle-loading rifles with a small ramrod tube nestled under each barrel.
The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006
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He had shot himself from a small, single-barreled pistol which was lying beside him.
Knock, knock, knock 2006
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Propped against a nearby tree was a single-barreled ten-gauge shotgun.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Propped against a nearby tree was a single-barreled ten-gauge shotgun.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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From corn-planting to husking-time, from dewy morn until evening more than due, he might be seen dodging behind fences, crawling around barns, stalking along in the high grass, with a long single-barreled old gun, trying to get a shot at the black thieves of crows that were forever at work on his old, sandy farm.
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Upon the pommel of his saddle lay a long single-barreled squirrel gun, for the hills were full of squirrels, and Jud was fond of a tender one, now and then.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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The shepherd ran for the entrance of a cave, and came out in a minute with a single-barreled gun: coming down to within twenty feet of
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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