barrel

1. 1.

   put in barrels

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Other forms of barrel

plural

barrels·

past tense or participle

barrelled

present participle

barrelling

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about barrel

What does barrel mean?

barrel means "a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in barrel?

barrel has 2 syllables: bar-rel. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbæɹəl/.

What is another word for barrel?

Close synonyms include gun barrel, cask, drum, barrelful, bbl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barrel a common word?

barrel is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.