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unbarreled

unbarreled is the alternative form of unbarrelled.

unbarreled is the simple past and past participle of unbarrel.

Meaning of unbarrelled

Adjective

unbarrelled (not comparable)

  1. Not packed into a barrel or barrels.
    • More pointedly, these merchants were not to buy unsalted and unbarrelled fish nor were they to trade at any location 'at the Lowis nor uthir Mane land' other than free burghs where the appropriate duties and customs could be levied.2021, Richard D. Oram, Geoffrey Stell, Lordship and Architecture in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland

Meaning of unbarrel

Verb

unbarrel (third-person singular simple present unbarrels, present participle (US) unbarreling or (UK) unbarrelling, simple past and past participle (US) unbarreled or (UK) unbarrelled)

  1. (transitive) To unpack from a barrel or barrels.
    • The remainder of the men were employed in unbarreling our Pork and stringing it on poles for convenience of carriage, and carrying our Batteaux from the river to the pond.1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775, page 6

Questions about unbarreled

What is unbarreled the alternative form of?
Unbarreled is the alternative form of unbarrelled.

Words near unbarreled in the dictionary

  1. unbaronial
  2. unbaroque
  3. unbarrable
  4. unbarred
  5. unbarrel
  6. unbarreled
  7. unbarreling
  8. unbarrelled
  9. unbarrelling
  10. unbarrels
  11. unbarren

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unbarreled (page history and authors); unbarrelled (page history and authors); unbarrel (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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