Barrel vs. Tierce

Barrelnoun

(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

Barrelnoun

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.

Barrelnoun

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case

Barrelnoun

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

Barrelnoun

(archaic) A tube.

Barrelnoun

(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.

Barrelnoun

(music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).

Barrelnoun

(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.

Barrelnoun

A waste receptacle.

Barrelnoun

The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

Barrelnoun

(obsolete) A jar.

Barrelnoun

(biology) 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.

Barrelverb

(transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

Barrelverb

(intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

Barrelnoun

A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads; as, a cracker barrel. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

Barrelnoun

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.

Barrelnoun

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

Barrelnoun

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.

Barrelnoun

A jar.

Barrelnoun

The hollow basal part of a feather.

Barrelverb

To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

Barrelnoun

a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired

Barrelnoun

a cylindrical container that holds liquids

Barrelnoun

a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

Barrelnoun

the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold

Barrelnoun

any of various units of capacity;

Barrelverb

put in barrels

Barrelnoun

a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them

Barrelnoun

a barrel together with its contents

Barrelnoun

a measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 litres) for oil

Barrelnoun

a tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen

Barrelnoun

the belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse

Barrelverb

drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control

Barrelverb

put into a barrel or barrels

Barrel

A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wood or metal hoops.

Tiercenoun

(obsolete) A third.

Tiercenoun

: the third canonical hour or its service.

Tiercenoun

A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

Tiercenoun

(music) The third tone of the scale. See mediant.

Tiercenoun

(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.

Tiercenoun

(fencing) The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.

Tiercenoun

(heraldry) An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.

Tiercenoun

(obsolete) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)

Tiercenoun

A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons.

Tiercenoun

A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

Tiercenoun

The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

Tiercenoun

A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.

Tiercenoun

A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Tiercenoun

The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

Tierceadjective

Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; - said of an escutcheon.

Tiercenoun

the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.

Tiercenoun

the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

Tiercenoun

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole;