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barrel cactus

any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U S and Mexico having a short cylindrical form with deep vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines They are classed in the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus...


Barreled

Having a barrel used in composition as a double barreled gun...


Barrel

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 as a cracker barrel Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal usually called a drum...


barrelful

The quantity that a barrel of any size will hold...


Barrel process

A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel or drum with mercury chlorine cyanide solution or other reagent...


cracker barrel

characteristic of country life as cracker barrel philosophy...


Double barreled

Having two barrels applied to a gun...


Barrel

Barrel, a measure of 36 gallons....


Hereditary duties

Hereditary duties of 1s. 3d. per barrel of beer or ale above 6s. a barrel, 4d. per barrel under 6s., and 15d. for every hogshead of sider (sic) and perry, directed in 1660 by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, to be paid to the king, his heirs and successors for ever, in recompense for the profits of the Court of Wards and other royal privileges abolished by that Act. Surrendered for their lifetimes by succeeding sovereigns (25 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 15). See CIVIL LIST....


VerbarMitrailleuse

A breech loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly...


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