The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
A waste receptacle.
A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
The hollow basal part of a feather.
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
To assume the shape of a barrel; specifically, of the image on a computer display, television, etc., to exhibit barrel distortion, where the sides bulge outwards.
A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
The shell of this sea animal.
Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.
To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.