Dictionary Entry
barrel
barrel is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- 5noun
A jar.
- 6noun
The hollow basal part of a feather.
- 7transitive verb
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- 8noun
a cylindrical container that holds liquids
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- 9noun
a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
- 10noun
any of various units of capacity
"a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
- 11noun
the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
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- 12noun
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
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- 13verb
put in barrels
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