| barrel | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. barrel, gun barrel | a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired. |
| ~ gun | a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel). |
| ~ tube, tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. barrel, cask | a cylindrical container that holds liquids. |
| ~ beer barrel, beer keg | a barrel that holds beer. |
| ~ breech, rear of barrel, rear of tube | opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded. |
| ~ bung, spile | a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask. |
| ~ butt | a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons). |
| ~ hogshead | a large cask especially one holding 63 gals. |
| ~ hoop, ring | a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling.; "there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse" |
| ~ keg | small cask or barrel. |
| ~ pickle barrel | a barrel holding vinegar in which cucumbers are pickled. |
| ~ shook | a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment. |
| ~ stave, lag | one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket. |
| ~ spigot, tap | a plug for a bunghole in a cask. |
| ~ tun | a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals. |
| ~ vessel | an object used as a container (especially for liquids). |
| ~ wine barrel, wine cask | a barrel that holds wine. |
| n. (shape) | 3. barrel, drum | a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends. |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (quantity) | 4. barrel, barrelful | the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold. |
| ~ containerful | the quantity that a container will hold. |
| n. (quantity) | 5. barrel, bbl | any of various units of capacity.; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons" |
| ~ united states liquid unit | a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System. |
| ~ british capacity unit, imperial capacity unit | a unit of measure for capacity officially adopted in the British Imperial System; British units are both dry and wet. |
| ~ gal, gallon | United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters. |
| ~ congius, imperial gallon, gallon | a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters. |
| ~ hogshead | a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages. |
| v. (contact) | 6. barrel | put in barrels. |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| drum | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. drum, membranophone, tympan | a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end. |
| ~ bass drum, gran casa | a large drum with two heads; makes a sound of indefinite but very low pitch. |
| ~ bongo, bongo drum | a small drum; played with the hands. |
| ~ drumhead, head | a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum. |
| ~ percussion instrument, percussive instrument | a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another. |
| ~ side drum, snare drum, snare | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head. |
| ~ tabor, tabour | a small drum with one head of soft calfskin. |
| ~ tambour | a drum. |
| ~ tambourine | a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides. |
| ~ tenor drum, tom-tom | any of various drums with small heads. |
| ~ timbrel | small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers. |
| n. (event) | 2. drum | the sound of a drum.; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" |
| ~ sound | the sudden occurrence of an audible event.; "the sound awakened them" |
| n. (artifact) | 3. drum, metal drum | a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids. |
| ~ vessel | an object used as a container (especially for liquids). |
| n. (artifact) | 4. brake drum, drum | a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes. |
| ~ drum brake | hydraulic brake in which friction is applied to the inside of a spinning drum by the brake shoe. |
| ~ cylinder | a surface generated by rotating a parallel line around a fixed line. |
| n. (animal) | 5. drum, drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise. |
| ~ sciaenid, sciaenid fish | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound. |
| ~ equetus pulcher, striped drum | a kind of drumfish. |
| ~ equetus lanceolatus, jackknife-fish | black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin. |
| ~ bairdiella chrysoura, mademoiselle, silver perch | small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico. |
| ~ channel bass, red drum, sciaenops ocellatus, redfish | large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico. |
| v. (perception) | 6. beat, drum, thrum | make a rhythmic sound.; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" |
| ~ beat | indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks.; "Beat the rhythm" |
| ~ sound, go | make a certain noise or sound.; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'" |
| v. (creation) | 7. drum | play a percussion instrument. |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ play | perform music on (a musical instrument).; "He plays the flute"; "Can you play on this old recorder?" |
| v. (cognition) | 8. bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up | study intensively, as before an exam.; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" |
| ~ cram | prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam. |
| ~ hit the books, study | learn by reading books.; "He is studying geology in his room"; "I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now" |
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