"gun-barrel" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1883, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, page 795",
          "text": "The honey-combing of gun-barrels is caused by the residue, left by the exploded powder, setting up a galvanic action between the iron and steel composing Damascus and laminated steel barrels, or between the different grades of iron forming twist barrels.",
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        {
          "ref": "1903 November, “Barrel Makers' Petition to the War Office”, in Arms & Explosives, page 164",
          "text": "A petition from the master gun-barrel makers of Birmingham and district to his Majesty's Secretary of State for War praying that steps be taken to amend the present practice of proof-marking foreign-made barrels with the same proof-mark or marks as those stamped upon barrels made in the United Kingdom, and to adopt a mark or marks which would be indicative of foreign make, and which would be easily discernable by sportsmen and other purchasers and colonial and foreign Customs officers.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2002, M.C. Lemon, The Discipline of History and the History of Thought",
          "text": "If, on the other hand, we perceive the smoking gun-barrel as proof of something then we are precisely trying to rule out alternatives.",
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        "Alternative form of gunbarrel"
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  "word": "gun-barrel"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1883, Alfred Marshall Mayer, Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, page 795",
          "text": "The honey-combing of gun-barrels is caused by the residue, left by the exploded powder, setting up a galvanic action between the iron and steel composing Damascus and laminated steel barrels, or between the different grades of iron forming twist barrels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1903 November, “Barrel Makers' Petition to the War Office”, in Arms & Explosives, page 164",
          "text": "A petition from the master gun-barrel makers of Birmingham and district to his Majesty's Secretary of State for War praying that steps be taken to amend the present practice of proof-marking foreign-made barrels with the same proof-mark or marks as those stamped upon barrels made in the United Kingdom, and to adopt a mark or marks which would be indicative of foreign make, and which would be easily discernable by sportsmen and other purchasers and colonial and foreign Customs officers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2002, M.C. Lemon, The Discipline of History and the History of Thought",
          "text": "If, on the other hand, we perceive the smoking gun-barrel as proof of something then we are precisely trying to rule out alternatives.",
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        }
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