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A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
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 barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
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.
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.
Alt. of Barrelled
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Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
of Barrel
Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
A tract of barren land.
Mentally dull; stupid.
Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.