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beer-barrel

beer-barrel is the alternative spelling of beerbarrel.

Meaning of beerbarrel

Noun

beerbarrel (plural beerbarrels)

  1. A barrel in which beer is kept; a keg.
    • The hill-folk that dwell in this mount are well known in all the villages round, and no one ever omits making a cross on his beer-barrels, for the Trolls are in the habit of slipping down from Hjulehöi to steal beer.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 187

Forms of beer-barrel

pluralbeer-barrels

Questions about beer-barrel

What is beer-barrel the alternative spelling of?
Beer-barrel is the alternative spelling of beerbarrel.

Words near beer-barrel in the dictionary

  1. beer wench
  2. beer wenches
  3. beer wort
  4. beer worts
  5. Beer's law
  6. beer-barrel
  7. beer-barrels
  8. beer-bellied
  9. beer-bottle
  10. beer-bottles
  11. beer-bust

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