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rain-barrel

rain-barrel is the alternative spelling of rain barrel.

Meaning of rain barrel

Noun

rain barrel (plural rain barrels)

  1. (Canada, US) A barrel used to collect and store rainwater runoff, typically from rooftops via gutters.
    Synonyms:
    water butt

Forms of rain-barrel

pluralrain-barrels

Questions about rain-barrel

What is rain-barrel the alternative spelling of?
Rain-barrel is the alternative spelling of rain barrel.

Words near rain-barrel in the dictionary

  1. rain truck
  2. rain trucks
  3. rain water
  4. rain year
  5. rain years
  6. rain-barrel
  7. rain-barrels
  8. rain-check
  9. rain-checked
  10. rain-checking
  11. rain-checks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rain-barrel (page history and authors); rain barrel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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