single-barrel
noun
a gun having one barrel, especially a shotgun.
single-barreled
-
a word derived from
single-barrel.
Example Sentences
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St. John’s waited until it had secured a sponsor before paying $12,000 for a single-barreled Gatling gun from FX in Motion two seasons ago.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2014
Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight at the edge of a slash-pine grove.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
He had an old and rusty, single-barreled muzzle-loading gun, and he was carrying a dead sea-gull by the tip of one of its wings.
From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Waldo
