Phrase Hound found 24 phrases and 9 compound words that contain barrels. The most common are listed below. Open barrels in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 24
- barrels of landplural of barrel of land: A Scandinavian unit of area, varying in size but usually seen as equivalent to an acre.
- barrels of sunshineplural of barrel of sunshine: A very cheery and happy person.
- barrels of laughsplural of barrel of laughs: A great amount of enjoyment or entertainment, or something or someone that provides this.
- barrels of monkeysplural of barrel of monkeys: Someone or something very amusing or funny, fun, mischievous, etc.
- beer-barrelsplural of beer-barrel: A barrel in which beer is kept; a keg.
- construction barrelsplural of construction barrel: A usually striped cylindrical object used as a temporary traffic barrier or warning near construction works.
- double-barrelsplural of double-barrel: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see double, barrelled. Having two barrels, as a gun.
- gun barrelsplural of gun barrel: The barrel of a gun.
- rain barrelsplural of rain barrel: A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.
- both barrelsThe maximum damage that a weapon can deliver.
- beta barrelsplural of beta barrel: A large beta sheet that twists and coils to form a closed structure in which the first strand is hydrogen-bonded to the last.
- burn barrelsplural of burn barrel: A large metal container in which waste materials are disposed of by burning.
- going barrelsplural of going barrel: A barrel containing the mainspring, with teeth on its periphery to drive the train.
- light barrelsplural of light barrel: An empty powder barrel pierced with holes and filled with shavings soaked in pitch, used to light up a ditch or a breach.
- pork barrelsplural of pork barrel: A barrel used to store pork.
- traffic barrelsplural of traffic barrel: A usually striped cylindrical object used as a temporary traffic barrier or warning near construction works.
- triple barrelsplural of triple barrel: The act of bluffing on the flop, turn and river in the same round.
- U-barrelsplural of U-barrel: A barrel for collecting urine where normal toilet facilities are not available.
- wash barrelsplural of wash barrel: A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.
- cracker barrelsplural of cracker barrel: A barrel for holding crackers.
- Damascus barrelsplural of Damascus barrel: A gun barrel formed by twisting and welding strips of metal around a hard die; no longer commonly used now due to its inability to handle high cartridge pressure on modern ammunition.
- escalator barrelsplural of escalator barrel: A sharply inclined shaft or tunnel in which escalators are installed underground, particularly at underground railway stations.
- empty barrels make the most noiseAlternative form of empty vessels make the most sound: Talkative, opinionated people are often ignorant.
- budge barrelsplural of budge barrel: A small barrel for transporting gunpowder, having a leather hood to prevent the powder from catching fire.
Compound words 9
- Barbarrelsplural of Barbarrel: The card Barbarian Barrel, a ground-targeting spell that does splash damage in the form of a barrel then spawns a single Barbarian troop upon reaching its destination.
- beerbarrelsplural of beerbarrel: A barrel in which beer is kept; a keg.
- gigabarrelsplural of gigabarrel: A unit of volume equal to a thousand million barrels.
- gunbarrelsplural of gunbarrel: Alternative form of gun barrel (“barrel of a gun”).
- porkbarrelsplural of porkbarrel: A barrel used to store pork.
- rainbarrelsplural of rainbarrel: A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.
- turnbarrelsplural of turnbarrel: A kind of rifle with a rotary barrel action.
- multibarrelsMultiple barrels.
- bumbarrelsplural of bumbarrel: A long-tailed tit, a small passerine bird; Aegithalos caudatus.