• Thumbnail for 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...
    31 KB (3,496 words) - 20:59, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel bomb
    A barrel bomb is an improvised unguided bomb, sometimes described as a flying IED (improvised explosive device). They are typically made from a large barrel-shaped...
    38 KB (3,889 words) - 18:07, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for BARREL
    Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL, sometimes called Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses) was a NASA...
    4 KB (374 words) - 08:47, 19 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Barrel (unit)
    A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer...
    25 KB (3,215 words) - 11:28, 14 December 2024
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., trading as Cracker Barrel, is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The...
    70 KB (5,744 words) - 00:08, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pork barrel
    Pork barrel, or simply pork, is a metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to direct expenditures...
    11 KB (1,213 words) - 12:18, 16 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel vault
    A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or...
    17 KB (1,950 words) - 01:52, 4 June 2024
  • Look up double barrel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Double Barrel may refer to: Multiple-barrel firearm "Double Barrel" (song), a 1970 reggae single...
    542 bytes (96 words) - 06:42, 3 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Barrel hitch
    ‹The template Manual is being considered for merging.›  The "barrel hitch" and "barrel sling", named for their use in hoisting cargo aboard ships, are...
    2 KB (271 words) - 21:31, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gun barrel
    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...
    19 KB (2,177 words) - 12:53, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel chest
    Barrel chest generally refers to a broad, deep chest found on a patient (or other person). A barrel chested person will usually have a naturally large...
    2 KB (269 words) - 23:03, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel racing
    Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to run a cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. In collegiate...
    18 KB (2,386 words) - 23:02, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel (horology)
    Used in mechanical watches and clocks, a barrel is a cylindrical metal box closed by a cover, with a ring of gear teeth around it, containing a spiral...
    2 KB (321 words) - 12:23, 24 January 2024
  • A barrel murder was a method for disposing of the bodies of people killed by early American mafiosi since the 1870s, although the earliest recorded barrel...
    3 KB (384 words) - 10:29, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sawed-off shotgun
    scattergun, sawn-off shotgun, short-barrelled shotgun, shorty, or boom stick) is a type of shotgun with a shorter gun barrel—typically under 18 inches (46 cm)—and...
    23 KB (2,979 words) - 01:41, 2 December 2024
  • Look up barrel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A barrel is a cylindrical container, traditionally made with wooden material. Barrel may also refer...
    1 KB (171 words) - 12:06, 31 December 2023
  • Look up bottom of the barrel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bottom of the barrel may refer to: Bottom of the barrel, an English idiom originally referring...
    355 bytes (92 words) - 06:29, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel organ
    A barrel organ (also called roller organ or crank organ) is a French mechanical musical instrument consisting of bellows and one or more ranks of pipes...
    11 KB (1,426 words) - 19:38, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crate & Barrel
    Euromarket Designs Inc., doing business as Crate & Barrel (stylized as Crate&Barrel), is an international furniture and home décor retail store headquartered...
    24 KB (2,168 words) - 18:10, 13 November 2024
  • A slug barrel is a shotgun barrel that is designed primarily to fire slugs instead of shot, and is usually rifled. A shotgun with such a barrel is often...
    5 KB (803 words) - 15:46, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Beta barrel
    In protein structures, a beta barrelbarrel) is a beta sheet (β sheet) composed of tandem repeats that twists and coils to form a closed toroidal structure...
    15 KB (1,669 words) - 19:01, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel roll
    A barrel roll is an aerial maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on both its longitudinal and lateral axes, causing it to follow a helical...
    22 KB (2,911 words) - 06:04, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Pickle Barrel
    The Pickle Barrel is a Canadian restaurant chain. Originally opened in 1971 as a Jewish deli located on Leslie Street in Toronto, the restaurant now operates...
    5 KB (411 words) - 01:57, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lock, stock, and barrel
    "Lock, stock, and barrel" is a merism used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning "all", "total" or "everything". It derives from...
    3 KB (293 words) - 13:53, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel cortex
    species of at least two other orders and contains the barrel field. The 'barrels' of the barrel field are regions within cortical layer IV that are visibly...
    26 KB (3,174 words) - 12:45, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel shroud
    A barrel shroud is an external covering that envelops (either partially or full-length) the barrel of a firearm to prevent unwanted direct contact with...
    7 KB (844 words) - 23:17, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barrel cactus
    Barrel cacti are various members of the two genera Echinocactus and Ferocactus, endemic to the deserts of Southwestern North America southward to north...
    5 KB (502 words) - 10:46, 1 November 2024
  • Barrel man, Barrel Man, or Barrelman may refer to: Barrel man (novelty) Barrel Man (Denver Broncos), a man who attended Denver Broncos football games clad...
    756 bytes (123 words) - 03:23, 28 May 2021
  • Thumbnail for Double-barreled shotgun
    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...
    14 KB (1,836 words) - 16:08, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Single barrel whiskey
    Single barrel whiskey (or single cask whiskey) is a premium class of whiskey in which each bottle comes from an individual aging barrel, instead of coming...
    6 KB (599 words) - 06:46, 3 April 2023