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Speeder's activity
Answer for the clue "Speeder's activity ", 9 letters:
barreling
Word definitions for barreling in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (present participle of barrel English) n. (cx mechanical engineering English) A defect in which a testpiece is deformed into a barrel-like shape. vb. (present participle of barrel English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barrel \Bar"rel\ (b[a^]r"r[e^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barreled (-r[e^]ld), or Barrelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Barreling , or Barrelling .] To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
Usage examples of barreling.
He was barreling down the Capital Beltway in another car he had stolen on his way to meet Deron.
He was out of the cab in an instant, sprinting the north wall behind the protection of the last car to come barreling through in the other direction.
Berard sucked in her breath as she saw the huge eighteen-wheeler come barreling along in the adjacent lane.
He aimed the Voxan at the eighteen-wheeler barreling toward him on the left, then let go of the handlebar.
No w you're barreling through the course, and he's supposed to cover your back.
It was barreling down on her in the dewy look in Laura's eyes, the edgy one in Margo's.
He was barreling around the courtyard chasing sparrows, shadows, dandelion puffs, and fresh air.
Dark figures they were, darting through showers of soft, burned flecks and a barreling storm of smoke.
He'd been barreling toward the edge of one roof, preparing to vault to the other side, when he got to one where he realized, at the last moment, that the gap was simply too wide.
There was Uncle Ben's Oldsmobile, barreling down Fifth Avenue, the driver himself hidden by the long shadows of the night.
The car cut hard to the left, barreling down a sidestreet toward the East River.
Cindy felt the rush of air from a southbound train as it pulled into the station on the opposite track, knew she didn't have much time before a northbound train came barreling along.
She threw herself out of the path of the shape that was barreling towards her.
He was a good enough driver -- even in his present state -- to recover quickly, and things might have been fine had another speed-freak not come barreling round the corner in the opposite direction.
If he was barreling down the runway at two hundred miles an hour, completing the takeoff run, and the board started lighting up red, should he (a) abort the takeoff (and try to wrestle with the monster, which was gorged with jet fuel, out in the sand beyond the end of the runway) or (b) eject (and hope that the goddamned human cannonball trick works at zero altitude and he doesn't shatter an elbow or a kneecap on the way out) or (c) continue the takeoff and deal with the problem aloft (knowing full well that the ship may be on fire and therefore seconds away from exploding)?