What is the meaning of Barrel?
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). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
A tube.
The hollow basal part of a feather.
The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
A waste receptacle.
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
A jar.
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.
A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
(Discuss this sense) 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.
Alternative form of baril
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