double-barrel

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A double-barrelled gun, now especially a double-barrelled shotgun. informal
    — Five minutes before one — brought down a moth / With my new double-barrel — stew'd the thighs, / And made a very tolerable broth […]
动词 v.
  1. To join with a hyphen or space. transitive
    — You be the judge: my husband refuses to double-barrel our surnames. Should I take his last name? [title]
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative form of double-barrelled. alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

词形变化

double-barrels present,singular,third-person double-barreling US,participle,present double-barrelling UK,participle,present double-barreled US,participle,past double-barreled US,past double-barrelled UK,participle,past double-barrelled UK,past double-barrels plural
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