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What does double-barrelled mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of names) Having two separate parts, often adjoined by a line (or sometimes a space), e.g. Wright-Phillips.
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By the time she was fifteen she was living on her own, managing a roughneck joint with a double-barrelled shotgun by her side.
She had an aristocratic double-barrelled name for a start, and who but posh folk were called Camilla anyway?
He said the couple, who live in Pocklington, had considered a double-barrelled surname but decided to keep things simple.
When the debate had begun a couple of hours earlier, a double-barrelled assault by the them was the last thing on his mind.
My surname is one of the most common in this country and hers is double-barrelled.
The idea that it was run by port-swilling people with double-barrelled surnames had an element of truth.

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