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Definition of Single-barrelled
1. Adjective. Having one barrel. "Most guns are single-barreled"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Single-barrelled
Literary usage of Single-barrelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Patent percussion rille. fowling pieces ; single-barrelled flint guns for ...
Double and single barrelled guns. Muskets, fowling- pieces, and guns for ..."
2. A Treatise on Pneumatics: Being the Physics of Gases : Including Vapors by Martin Hans Boye (1856)
"9 exhibits another efficient single-barrelled but single-acting exhausting
air-pump, of Boston manufacture, often met with, and known as an Improved ..."
3. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1880)
"A vacuum is thus produced by half the number of strokes which would be required
with a single-barrelled pump. It lias besides another advantage. ..."
4. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1881)
"A vacuum is thus produced by half the number of strokes which would be required
with a single-barrelled pump. It has besides another advantage. ..."
5. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy by Augustin Privat-Deschanel (1878)
"A Plenum is thus produced by half the number of strokes which would I* required
with a single-barrelled pump. It has besides another *dvantage. ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1849)
"The title given to them is apt to convey the idea that they excel single-barrelled
air-pumps, in the same way that a double-barrelled gun does a ..."
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