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.
Definitions
- 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- noun. A jar.
- noun. The hollow basal part of a feather.
- transitive verb. To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
- noun. a cylindrical container that holds liquids
- noun. a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired
- noun. any of various units of capacity
"a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons"
- noun. the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold
- noun. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- verb. put in barrels
Synonyms
Common word forms
barrels, barreled, barreler, barrelful, barreling, barrelled, barrelling
Words from these letters
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