Construction barrels (coloqually known as "drums" in the United States) are traffic control devices used to channel motor vehicle traffic through construction...
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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...
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roof. As with all arch-based constructions, there is an outward thrust generated against the walls underneath a barrel vault. There are several mechanisms...
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A double-barreled shotgun, also known as a double shotgun, is a break-action shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two single shots that can be...
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Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct expenditures...
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center wheel. Barrels rotate slowly: for a watch mainspring barrel, the rate is usually one rotation every 8 hours. This construction allows the mainspring...
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nines" and features a staggered-column magazine, all-steel construction, and a hammer forged barrel. It is widely distributed throughout the world and is the...
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Gentle Giant (redirect from Scraping the Barrel)
CD/Blu-Ray) Under Construction (1997, 2-CD boxset of unreleased material, demos, outtakes and odd live recordings) Scraping the Barrel (2004, 4-CD boxset...
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Muzzle brake (redirect from Ported barrel)
device connected to, or a feature integral (ported barrel) to the construction of, the muzzle or barrel of a firearm or cannon that is intended to redirect...
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Groin vault (redirect from Double barrel vault)
the points where the barrel vaults intersect), so the vault need only be abutted at its four corners. Groin vault construction was first employed by...
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Two-piece rifled construction, with replaceable liner Electronic fuze setter replaces the mechanical one. Made with a unitary construction barrel, which has...
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of his motorcycle on the freeway when he accidentally clipped a construction barrel and was sent skidding into a median barrier at about 65 miles per...
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Traffic cone (redirect from Construction cone)
Where sturdier (and larger) markers are needed, construction sites use traffic barrels (plastic orange barrels with reflective stripes, normally about the...
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Oak (wine) (redirect from Barrel oak)
tannin profile and texture of wine. It can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves...
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Rifling (redirect from Rifled barrel)
for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearms's barrel for imparting a spin to a projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability...
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A gun barrel is a crucial part of gun-type weapons such as small firearms, artillery pieces, and air guns. It is the straight shooting tube, usually made...
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the same short-recoil, rotating barrel action as the Beretta 8000 series, whereas the Subcompact uses the tilt barrel system. Unlike the Beretta 92FS/96FS/M9/M9A1...
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On some firearms the gun barrel is fastened to the receiver with a nut, referred to as a barrel nut. A barrel nut (also known as steel cross dowel or dowel...
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Gun Barrel City is a town in Henderson County, Texas, United States. Its population was 6,190 at the 2020 census, an increase over the figure of 5,672...
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Seabee (redirect from Naval Construction Battalions)
United States Naval Construction Battalions, better known as the Navy Seabees, form the U.S. Naval Construction Forces (NCF). The Seabee nickname is a...
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Caliber (artillery) (redirect from Barrel length)
is the internal diameter of a gun barrel, or, by extension, a relative measure of the barrel length. Rifled barrels introduce ambiguity to measurement...
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Pillory (redirect from Barrel pilory)
criminal is put in either an enclosed barrel, forcing him to kneel in his own filth, or an open barrel, also known as "barrel shirt" or "drunkards collar" after...
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Cooper (profession) (redirect from Barrel maker)
A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually...
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Heidelberg Tun (section The barrel in literature)
Heidelberg Castle. There have been four such barrels in the history of Heidelberg. In 1751, the year of its construction, the present one had a capacity of 221...
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Coaxial power connector (redirect from Barrel connector)
as barrel connectors, concentric barrel connectors or tip connectors, these small cylindrical connectors come in an enormous variety of sizes. Barrel plug...
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Pascal's law (redirect from Pascal's barrel)
(which can be represented as a U tube with pistons on either end). Pascal's barrel is the name of a hydrostatics experiment allegedly performed by Blaise Pascal...
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Hinge (redirect from Barrel hinge)
hinge is related to hang. Barrel hinge A barrel hinge consists of a sectional barrel (the knuckle) secured by a pivot. A barrel is simply a hollow cylinder...
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Margot hot-wires a car that Ron uses to drive Leo into a bunch of construction barrels, then she kicks the crown out of his hands and Clancy catches it...
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Stave (wood) (redirect from Barrel stave)
form the sides of barrels, tanks, tubs, vats and pipelines, originally handmade by coopers. They have been used in the construction of large holding tanks...
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the Etruscans. The Romans in particular developed vault construction further and built barrel, cross and dome vaults. Some outstanding examples have survived...
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