English Dictionary

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.
Source : opted (12918)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (12919)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (12920)  - auto

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
Source : opted (12921)  - auto

A jar.
Source : opted (12922)  - auto

The hollow basal part of a feather.
Source : opted (12923)  - auto

To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Source : opted (12928)  - auto