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What does barrel mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable) 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.
  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;
  4. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  5. (archaic) A tube.
  6. (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  7. (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  8. (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  9. (US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
  10. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  11. (obsolete) A jar.
  12. (biology) 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.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  2. (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
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