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Farmers Slang & Its Analogues. 18901909, rev. 2022.
Double-barrel
subs.
(popular).A field or opera glass.
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1890. H. D. T
RAILL,
Saturday Songs,
p. 61.
Intently as the masher plies
Oer all the stage his
DOUBLE-BARREL,
That Eightyer mute had fixed his eyes
Upon his honoured guests apparel.
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