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      barrel
      noun
      (countable) 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). The word is 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.
      Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
      A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
      A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
      (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
      (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and resembles a barrel.
      (automotive) A venturi (in carburetion).
      (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
      The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
      (biology) 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.
      (baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
      (television) A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
      (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
      (archaic) Any tube.
      (obsolete) A jar.
      verb
      (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
      (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
      (intransitive) To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
      Roots
      barilbarrel- · Old French · cask
      Synonyms for barrel
      casknhogsheadnkegndrumvbottlencylindernbushelntunntankncraten
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