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Word: barrel
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- archaic A tube.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
- surfing A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- US|specifically|_|New England A waste receptacle.
- countable A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- music The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
- obsolete A jar. 1 Kings xvii. 12.
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 1/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- zoology The hollow basal part of a feather.
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Verb:
- To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
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