WordNet
adj. having one barrel; "most guns are single-barreled" [syn: single-barrelled] [ant: double-barreled]
Usage examples of "single-barreled".
Petreckski became aware of the threat when he heard Elphinstone's two small, single-barreled pistols fire to their rear.
The rocket pistol resembled a single-barreled shotgun sawed off and fitted with a revolver grip.
He saw them standing there, in a ring: Malachai with a lantern in one hand and in the other the ancient single-barreled shotgun that would sometimes shoot.
They were single-barreled and silver-mounted, and very dainty and pretty.
And even if he had money enough to buy them by the dozen, a single-barreled gun was a poor thing to hunt ducks with.
At the lower end of this slanting stretch of cement was a round hole, not quite a score of feet in diameter, which resembled nothing so much as the magnified maw of a single-barreled shotgun.
As they careened closer, they could see that the men working on the track had retreated back to one of the cars-and soon the roof of the car opened, revealing a single-barreled antiaircraft gun.