barrel

• a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
• a cylindrical container that holds liquids
• a bulging cylindrical shape
• the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
• any of various units of capacity
• put in barrels
• 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
• 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 solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
• A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged
• A jar
• The hollow basal part of a feather
• To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Guatemala in San Marcos

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