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gunbarrel en · NOUN

Etymology

From gun + barrel.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gun barrel (“barrel of a gun”).
   alt of gun barrel
   • The old complaint against smokeless powders that they caused an excessive strain in the gunbarrel is now very seldom heard. 1904, Notes on Shooting, page 3:
   • Scarcely before the gunbarrels had cooled , the inhabitants of the Maghrebi Quarter, founded by Saladin's son Afdal, were evacuated to new homes, their houses demolished to open the space before the Wall for the first time. 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 602:
   • Named becuse the creek is enclosed by vertical cliffs on both sides, so when you look up or down the creek it is straight as a gunbarrel. 1991, Susanne Smith, Recreation Guide to the North Fork Ranger District and the Salmon National Forest, page 33:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of gunbarrel tank.
   alt of gunbarrel tank
   • To examine the alloy of potassium and iron by experiments made upon the alloy itself, a gunbarrel was procured, in which the above chemists had frequently repeated their process for reducing potash, and was still filled on the inside with potashed iron. 1811, HassenFratz, “On Potashed Iron”, in Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries, page 179:
   • Clean oil then discharges from the gunbarrel into the sales tank. 1960, World Oil - Volume 151, page 142:
   • A four-inch line takes water from bottom of the gunbarrel to the heaters, and then returns the heated fluid to the gunbarrel. 1946, Gulf Coast Oil News - Volume 122, page 73:

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