BARRELLED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does barrelled mean? 

• BARRELLED (adjective)
  The adjective BARRELLED has 2 senses:

1. put in or stored in a barrel

2. (of an arrow) tapered toward both ends

  Familiarity information: BARRELLED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BARRELLED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put in or stored in a barrel

Synonyms:

barreled; barrelled

Context example:

barreled beer

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of an arrow) tapered toward both ends

Synonyms:

barreled; barrelled

Similar:

pointed (having a point)

 Context examples 

And he passed me a double-barrelled pistol.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Another time they chanced upon the time-graven wreckage of a hunting lodge, and amid the shreds of rotted blankets John Thornton found a long-barrelled flint-lock.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There they go! said my companion, slipping cartridges into the second double barrelled Express.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)