vierling
noun
vierling is a noun meaning “A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-E-R-L-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vierling is vierlings.
What does vierling mean?
noun
- 1
A long firearm with four barrels (typically two shotgun barrels and two rifle barrels).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vierling?
Vierling has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vierling
- vierlings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vierling?
Vierling appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vierling come from?
From German Vierling (“gun with four barrels; quadruplet”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).