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Barrel vs Breech - What's the difference?

barrel | breech |

In lang=en terms the difference between barrel and breech

is that barrel is to move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner while breech is to fasten with breeching.

As nouns the difference between barrel and breech

is that barrel is (countable) a round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum while breech is .

As verbs the difference between barrel and breech

is that barrel is to put or to pack in a barrel or barrels while breech is (dated|transitive) to dress in breeches (especially) to dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.

As an adverb breech is

with the hips coming out before the head.

As an adjective breech is

born, or having been born, breech.

barrel

English

(wikipedia barrel) of a winery in (Trnava), (Slovakia).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 ½ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons; of crude oil 42 gallons.
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  • A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
  • A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
  • (archaic) A tube.
  • (zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
  • (music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
  • (surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
  • A waste receptacle.
  • The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
  • (obsolete) A jar.
  • * Bible , 1 Kings 17:12, King James Version:
    • And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel , and a little oil in a cruse:
  • *:: compare the New International Version:
  • *::: "As surely as the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug.
  • (biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.

    • Related terms

    * barrelette * barrelless * barrel of monkeys * barreloid * barrel roll * infrabarreled, infrabarrelled * like shooting fish in a barrel * * over a barrel

    See also

    * cooper

    Verb

  • To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
  • To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.
    • He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.
  • * '>citation
    • Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds.

    breech

    English

    Noun

  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 157:
    • And he made a woman for playing the whore, sit upon a great stone, on her bare breech twenty-foure houres, onely with corne and water, every three dayes, till nine dayes were past [...].
  • * 1736 , Alexander Pope, Bounce to Fop :
    • When pamper'd Cupids'', bestly ''Veni's'', / And motly, squinting ''Harvequini's , / Shall lick no more their Lady's Br— , / But die of Looseness, Claps, or Itch; / Fair Thames from either ecchoing Shoare / Shall hear, and dread my manly Roar.
  • * 1749 , , Book III ch viii
  • *:"Oho!" says Thwackum, "you will not! then I will have it out of your br—h ;" that being the place to which he always applied for information on every doubtful occasion.
  • The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.
  • (nautical) The external angle of knee timber, the inside of which is called the throat.
  • A breech birth.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • With the hips coming out before the head.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Born, or having been born, breech.

    • Derived terms

    * breech birth * rod for one's own breech

    Verb

  • (dated) To dress in breeches. (especially) To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time.
  • * 1748-1832 , Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 10 :
    • it occurred before I was breeched , and I was breeched at three years and a quarter old;
  • * Macaulay
    • A great man anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched .
  • (dated) To beat or spank on the buttocks.
  • To fit or furnish with a breech.
    • to breech a gun
  • To fasten with breeching.
  • (poetic, transitive, obsolete) To cover as if with breeches.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore.

    See also

    * breeches