ppl. a. [f. BARREL + -ED.]
1. Packed or stored in barrels; stowed away or enclosed in a barrel.
1494. Act 1 Hen. VII., xxiii. No Merchant … should sell … any barrelled Fish, except [etc.].
1563. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 210, Item, xxvii stone of barreled butter.
1603. Davies, Microcosm. (1875), 83. The barrell’d Cynick hee.
1727. Swift, Modest Prop., Wks. 1755, II. II. 66. Our exportation of barreled beef.
1842. Gwilt, Archit., § 2259. Barrelled bolts are those in which the whole length of the bolt is enclosed in a continued cylindrical barrel.
fig. 1599. Marston, Sco. Villanie, I. iv. 188. Retayling others wit long barrelled, To glib some great mans eares.
2. Shaped like a barrel.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xlv. (1856), 414. A great barreled arch went back into a cavern.
3. Having a barrel or barrels; chiefly in comb., as round-, long-, single-, double-barrelled. Cf. BARREL sb. 8, 9.
1704. Lond. Gaz., No. 3984/4. A dark Mouse colour’d Mare, round Barrell’d. Ibid. (1711), No. 4888/4. Large limb’d, but small barrell’d.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxx. The … long-barrelled guns of several mountaineers.
1883. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 45/2. A double-barrelled shot-gun.
