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vierling

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • CMU ARPABET: V IH1 R L IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2018, James Ballou, Arming for the Apocalypse: Assembling Your Survival Arsenal ... While You Still Can, Prepper Press [...] three-barreled drillings, the two-barreled shotgun/rifle cape guns, and the four-barreled vierlings, which all featured some combination of rifle with shotgun barrels within the same gun.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From German Vierling (“gun with four barrels; quadruplet”).