"double-barrel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018, Tony Mangia, Fascination, Horseater Press, page 48",
          "text": "The three of us huddled for a long time, stoned and shivering, before Billy and Tommy finally both aimed their double-barrels at something other than the trees and soda cans they had been popping before.",
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        "(informal) A double-barrelled gun, now especially a double-barrelled shotgun."
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