English Dictionary

double-barrelled

形容詞

複数所有格

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun. / Twofold, having a double purpose or nature.

日本語の意味

銃身が二つある（例えば散弾銃のように、直接的な意味での二連銃身） / 二重の目的や性質を持つ

The hunter checked the double-barrelled shotgun before stepping out at dawn.

猟師は夜明けに出かける前に、二銃身の散弾銃を点検した。

意味（1）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.

意味（2）

Twofold, having a double purpose or nature.

Alexander Taylor, a native of Stonehaven who in the later forties went to Edinburgh, where he enjoyed a double-barrelled reputation as a rhymester and as an astronomer.

意味（3）

(of names) Having two separate parts, often adjoined by a line (or sometimes a space), e.g. Wright-Phillips.

Almost unbelievably, some authors have formed the erroneous conception that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is actually the double-barrelled surname of the dictionary’s editor.

意味（4）

Forceful, powerful (like a double-barrelled shotgun).

When the sheriff arrested [Lucy Hicks Anderson] one night, her double-barrelled reputation paid off—Charles Donlon, the town's leading banker, promptly bailed her out. Reason: He had scheduled a huge dinner party, which would have collapsed dismally with Lucy In gaol.