barrel

noun

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. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
a cracker barrel
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
the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
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.
Throw it into the trash barrel.
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.

verb

To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

The plural form of barrel is: barrels.
Languages in which barrel is used:
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- English
- French

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