rain barrel

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   a barrel used as a cistern to hold rainwater

   Broadercistern

Questions about rain barrel

What does rain barrel mean?

rain barrel means "a barrel used as a cistern to hold rainwater".

Is rain barrel a common word?

rain barrel 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.