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Definition of barrel

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Barrel (n.) 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/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds..

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

Trig :: Trig (n.) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid..

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

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

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

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Fleet :: Fleet (v. t.) To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain..

Gunstock :: Gunstock (n.) The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.

Tilt :: Tilt (v. t.) To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging liquor; as, to tilt a barrel..

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

Crane :: Crane (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel..

Unbarrel :: Unbarrel (v. t.) To remove or release from a barrel or barrels.

Double-barreled :: Double-barreled (a.) Alt. of -barrelle.

Cylinder :: Cylinder (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.

Firkin :: Firkin (n.) A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons..

Barrelling :: Barrelling () of Barre.

Rundlet :: Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons..

Cade :: Cade (n.) A barrel or cask, as of fish..

Revolver :: Revolver (n.) One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same lock; a repeater..

Slug :: Slug (v. i.) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm..