Mallet-heads are made square, cylindrical, and barrel-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Then the great barrel-shaped form of George Douglas "the Postulate,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

There was the barrel-shaped Earl of Huntly, who basked in public attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

A leather chair, crushed in places by the weight of a heavy barrel-shaped man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Luck and Trouble]

Worse, the Jamesway huts had barrel-shaped roofs, like the older Quonset huts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

The voice came, appropriately enough, from the barrel-shaped captain of the hoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Crisis]

She was small and a little barrel-shaped and even more devoutly Catholic than Mom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Broke Horses] Reference

What Ms. Page wanted was a barrel-shaped roof like one on a house she'd seen in Maine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dream House's Difficult Birth] Reference

He was only fifty, but his once-square build was beginning to appear more barrel-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Called Jesse]

The Tartar horses were short-legged, their barrel-shaped bodies encased in leather armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Vincent's multiple arms were folded neatly back against his hov-ering, barrel-shaped body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Hole]

He was a bald-headed, barrel-shaped man with a reputation for showing up around dinnertime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Static] Reference

Simon observed that the man carried more muscle than fat on his sturdy, barrel-shaped frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

He was of average human height, with a barrel-shaped chest and rather sticklike arms and legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kendermore]

This made the body of the airplane look barrel-shaped and chubby — the aesthetic consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane] Reference

It had to be sufficiently barrel-shaped to leave a good rim of fruit when the core was cut out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Mahallan and Martor caught up to him as he was entering the big barrel-shaped axis of the wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

They were replaced by barrel-shaped, grossly obese individuals- both the cattle and the ranchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Millaird folded his huge hands over his barrel-shaped body and laughed, without a trace of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traders] Reference

He was a short, barrel-shaped man with close-cropped, sparse gray hair, and a voice like sandpaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [STAR] Reference

The barrel-shaped framework of the chest is in part composed of long, slender, curved bones called ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The barrel-shaped merchant captain, his hands belligerently on his hips, met the commander's gaze imperiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Crisis]

Two guards lifted a long, barrel-shaped piece of wood and laid it in the iron door sleeves, securing it tightly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

What the first speaker had called "stinktors" turned out to be little barrel-shaped objects about one foot by two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Michelle floated up and over the barrel-shaped coral head, then over a pair of giant clams, each over a meter long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The lawman, tall and barrel-shaped, sighed and averted his eyes, gazing with interest at the contents of his own glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE VOW] Reference

 She was wearing her brown sweater with the barrel-shaped wooden buttons, one which Billy had seen on so many other days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man Loses Life] Reference

There were present deputies from all the best provincial choral societies; genuine, barrel-shaped, native Labassecouriens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

He was shorter than Malone had expected from the photos he had seen of the older man, just medium height and barrel-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn Maze]

Combining rather slender legs with a barrel-shaped body, they can exceed 1 m in length and have a shoulder height of c. 30 cm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference

They can lay their barrel-shaped eggs, up to 100 or more at a time, as many as four times a season on the undersides of leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A spring shower of queries on stink bugs, shade trees, more] Reference

The major eased his barrel-shaped bulk into the lift shaft and let himself be slithered through the friction-field to the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

The barrel-shaped man caught the wrist of the owl, wrenched the man's hand from the wrist of the woman, and pulled suddenly upward.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fine Red Rain]

   A large barrel-shaped man in a thick, brimless hat had stepped ponderously up to the bar, and was talking to Joe with glimmering eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lips that Touch Liquor: The Gin Buck] Reference

"They don't fight like a fish," one barrel-shaped fisherman said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

The cylindrical or barrel-shaped pileus is characteristic of the shaggy-mane mushroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference

It has a large barrel-shaped body which is covered with long spikes that are curved like fishhooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Sketches] Reference