barrels

Meaning of barrels

noun
  1. 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
  2. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
  3. 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.
  4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  5. A tube.
  6. The hollow basal part of a feather.
  7. The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  8. A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  9. A waste receptacle.
    Throw it into the trash barrel.
  10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  11. A jar.
  12. 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.
  13. A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
verb
  1. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  2. To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
    He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

Information about barrels

  • The singular form of barrels is: barrel.
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Hyphenation of barrels

bar-rels

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • barrels is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

barrels synonyms

Meaning :

cask, tun

Words that rhyme with barrels

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