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Foots :: Foots (n. pl.) The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead..

Barrelled :: Barrelled (a.) Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun..

Broach :: Broach (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

Barreled :: Barreled (a.) Alt. of Barrelle.

Roll :: Roll (n.) To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel..

Barrel :: Barrel (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

Rifling :: Rifling (n.) The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.

Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

Derringer :: Derringer (n.) A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball..

Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..

Vyce :: Vyce (n.) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Hoop :: Hoop (v. t.) To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon..

Browning :: Browning (n.) The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc..

-barrelled :: -barrelled (a.) Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.

Keg :: Keg (n.) A small cask or barrel.

Lump :: Lump (n.) A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

Coop :: Coop (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

Mitrailleuse :: Mitrailleuse (n.) A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly..

Rib :: Rib (n.) A longitudinal strip of metal uniting the barrels of a double-barreled gun.

Calamus :: Calamus (n.) The horny basal portion of a feather; the barrel or quill.

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