Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vierling

/vˈɪɹlɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: vier-ling
IPA: /vˈɪɹlɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

name

Example Sentences

"The vierling gun that Alan Tuck hunts with is truly a handcrafted work of art."
"The Blaser D99 drilling can be custom made with two side-by-side shotgun barrels and a rifle barrel over them. Another variation on the multiple barrel shotgun is the vierling, which is the German word for quadruplet. A vierling has four barrels […]"
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Vierling

Inflected Forms

vierlings (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

drilling

Questions

How do you pronounce vierling?: The recorded pronunciation is /vˈɪɹlɪŋ/.
What does vierling mean?: A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
Where does vierling come from?: It is traced to German.

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