Noun : a barrel of fun. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He barreled his car through the dense traffic. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to barrel along the highway. From Dictionary.com.
"The bullets we obtained from the bodies are generally used in short-barrelled guns," Ince said. From Wordnik.com. [London Free Press] Reference
I should think so -- and a double-barrelled one, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Our seven-barrelled pieces made great havoc amongst them. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
But from the same place he produced a blue-barrelled rifle. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
SCLATER-BOOTH, said of men who "had double-barrelled names"?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914] Reference
The rest carry everything, from double-barrelled shot-guns to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
The captain also examined the state of his double-barrelled pistols. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
"Awkward thing sometimes having a double-barrelled name," he continued. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
That's a doubled-barrelled mistake: Social Security isn't threatened financially. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice] Reference
On the farther brink knelt one of his enemies, a long-barrelled muzzle-loader in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Haydon's Quest] Reference
Many of them have armed retainers -- some few are good shots and have double-barrelled guns. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
Each of them were armed with a double-barrelled rifle, and furnished with a boatswain's whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Don knelt and fished from under the other's left arm a vicious-looking short-barrelled scrambler. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
The captain put a brace of double-barrelled pistols into his holsters, and the servants did the same. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Looking back, he saw three Moors in hot pursuit, whooping and brandishing their double-barrelled guns. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Election Committees, where moonshiners, mountain feuds, and double-barrelled shot guns played prominent parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
English gentlemen, with a pair of double-barrelled pistols shared between them, and their fingers ready on the triggers. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
I rode up to Kleinboy for my double-barrelled two-grooved rifle; he and Isaac were pale and almost speechless with fright. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
This was the "spirit-house," used for the storage of the spirits of turpentine when barrelled for market, and awaiting shipment. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
My first serious effort in Literature was what I may call a double-barrelled one; in other words, I was seriously engaged upon Two. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
They were not more than six paces apart, when Tom rose, and drawing a double-barrelled pistol from his pocket, aimed it at the planter. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
These last are more substantial, but so difficult to manage, that they prefer those from Europe; and, above all, double-barrelled guns. From Wordnik.com. [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference
She had a boarding netting fixed, to prevent her being boarded, and several seven-barrelled pieces and blunderbusses put on board of her. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Surrey 80 for four against Middlesex, Ramprakash still there on 21, no double-barrelled dream as Roland-Jones has taken one wicket, but not that of Hamilton-Brown. From Wordnik.com. [County cricket - as it happened!] Reference
Novelist Stella Duffy and playwright Shelley Silas decided on a double-barrelled surname when they tied the knot, immediately after the law was passed in December 2005. From Wordnik.com. [Something borrowed] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

