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single-barrelled

adj. having one barrel; "most guns are single-barreled" [syn: single-barreled] [ant: double-barreled]

Usage examples of "single-barrelled".

In that swift glance Jim saw that it was a single-barrelled weapon, and there was not a second in the holster.

Meanwhile Ali had procured the arms the count required — namely, a short carbine and a pair of double-barrelled pistols, with which as sure an aim might be taken as with a single-barrelled one.

The only armament, if such it could be called, that it carried was a pair of insignificant little guns, single-barrelled, one mounted for'ard of the bridge, the other on the poop.