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BARRELLED
barreled, barrelled
(adjective) put in or stored in a barrel; “barreled beer”
barreled, barrelled
(adjective) (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends
BARREL
barrel
(verb) put in barrels
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
barrelled
simple past tense and past participle of barrel
Adjective
barrelled (not comparable)
(firearms) having a barrel or specified number of barrels.
Source: Wiktionary
Bar"reled, Bar"relled, a.
Definition: Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
BARREL
Bar"rel, n.Etym: [OE. barel, F. baril, prob. fr. barre bar. Cf. Barricade.]
1. 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.
2. 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
3. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.
5. A jar. [Obs.] 1 Kings xvii. 12.
6. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The hollow basal part of a feather. Barrel bulk (Com.), a measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.
– Barrel drain (Arch.), a drain in the form of a cylindrical tube.
– Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part of a boiler, containing the flues.
– Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity.
– Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder.
– Barrel vault. See under Vault.
Bar"rel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barreled (Barrelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Barreling, or Barrelling.]
Definition: To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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