metal drum

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   a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

   Synonymsdrum

   Broadervessel

Questions about metal drum

What does metal drum mean?

metal drum means "a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids".

What is another word for metal drum?

Close synonyms include drum. 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 metal drum a common word?

metal drum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.