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wash barrels

wash barrels is the plural of wash barrel.

Meaning of wash barrel

Noun

wash barrel (plural wash barrels)

  1. A barrel nearly full of split mackerel, loosely put in, and afterward filled with salt water in order to soak the blood from the fish before salting.

Questions about wash barrels

What is wash barrels the plural of?
Wash barrels is the plural of wash barrel.

Words near wash barrels in the dictionary

  1. wash bag
  2. wash bags
  3. wash ball
  4. wash balls
  5. wash barrel
  6. wash barrels
  7. wash basin
  8. wash basins
  9. wash basket
  10. wash baskets
  11. wash bin

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