barrel

barrel has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
• n.. A jar.
• n.. The hollow basal part of a feather.
• v. t.. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
• n.. a cylindrical container that holds liquids
• n.. a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
• n.. any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
• n.. the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
• n.. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends