rear of barrel

Questions about rear of barrel

What is another word for rear of barrel?

It depends which rear of barrel you mean. In the sense “opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded”, the synonyms are breech, rear of tube. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of rear of barrel?

WordNet records no antonym for rear of barrel. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for rear of barrel come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of rear of barrel

• Full entry for rear of barrelAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for rear of barrelWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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