Meaning
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plural of barrel
Frequency
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barrel
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- A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- A tube.
- The hollow basal part of a feather.
- The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
- A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- A waste receptacle.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- (obsolete) A jar.
- Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
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