What is "going barrel"

Going \Go"ing\, n.

1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

2. Departure.
   --Milton.

3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
   --Crew.

4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. --Job xxxiv. 21. Going barrel. (Horology)

   1. A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.

   2. A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.

      Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. ``Every going forth of the sanctuary.''
      --Ezek. xliv.

5. (b) A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 4. Going out, or Goings out. (Script.)

   1. The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea.''
      --Num. xxxiv. 12.

   2. Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys.''
      --Num. xxxiii. 2.

      Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.

n. 1 (context horology English) A barrel containing the mainspring, with teeth on its periphery to drive the train. 2 (context horology English) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wind up.