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metal drum

n. a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [syn: drum]

Usage examples of "metal drum".

Dad biked away and it was just me next to this big, swirling metal drum falling through space.

Outside the door, a girl stood chatting with a man who was stirring the contents of a huge metal drum, set up over a small, fierce fire.

On the right wing, I saw the normal load of eight Hellfire missiles, but on the other wing-stub 1 saw a huge metal drum held by a pair of cylinders that attached to the wing's two hardpoints.

Kinnaird appeared with a metal drum on his shoulder, and as Bob stood up to see more clearly, he disappeared below the far edge of the flooring, at the point where the jeep was usually parked.

At the far end of the desk Krysty found a round metal drum, with a printed label behind clear plastic.

A cold wind had picked up since she had arrived at the bar and she rubbed her arms quickly before picking her way through a sea of discarded newspaper to a metal drum and ducked down behind it, her eyes riveted on the door.

Half a hundred meters down the street a fire burned in a metal drum, surrounded by a small crowd of figures warming their hands, but before he could even contemplate calling out to them the gun jabbed his backbone.

The amplification effect, on the other hand, is due to the large metal drum that covers the singer's head.

Then we rocked the big metal drum, got it rolling, and trundled it out through the door and down to the nearest of the tiled irrigation ditches.