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Barrelled

Barreled \Bar"reled\, Barrelled \Bar"relled\, a.

  1. Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

  2. put in or stored in a barrel;; as, barreled beer; -- opposite of unbarreled.

  3. tapered toward both ends; -- of an arrow.

Barrelled

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.

Wiktionary
barrelled
  1. (context firearms English) having a barrel or specified number of barrels. v

  2. (en-past of: barrel)

WordNet
barrelled
  1. adj. put in or stored in a barrel; "barreled beer" [syn: barreled] [ant: unbarreled]

  2. (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends [syn: barreled]

barrel
  1. n. a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired [syn: gun barrel]

  2. a cylindrical container that holds liquids [syn: cask]

  3. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: drum]

  4. the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold [syn: barrelful]

  5. any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons" [syn: bbl]

  6. [also: barrelling, barrelled]

barrel
  1. v. put in barrels

  2. [also: barrelling, barrelled]

barrelled

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Usage examples of "barrelled".

Baynes in tow, had barrelled down the length of The Wilderness with no less speed than Saturn and Angus.

He wore a straight sword, had a short barrelled carbine sheathed in his saddle holster and had a brace of pistols stuck in his belt.

Harper said viciously and pulled back the cock of his seven barrelled gun.

Harper finished loading his seven barrelled gun, then picked up a small rag doll that had been discarded under the garden bench.

She turned to flee, but Harper was in the shallows with the seven barrelled gun at his shoulder and his volley snatched Juanita off her horse in an eruption of blood.

The coastal highway was poorly maintained but almost deserted so I stuck to the yellow line in the centre of the road and barrelled along at a steady hundred and fifty.

Clasping it to his groinal areas, he barrelled forward and fled out of the pantry and out of the kitchen and out of the dining‑room and out of the inn and into the night.

It would be too easy to think of how lonely it was going to be, sitting in a seat on that train as it barrelled north toward Boston through the darkness, his suitcase overhead and his tote-bag full of nostrums between his feet, the fear sitting on his chest like a rancid Vicks-pack.