Alternative form of cash on the barrelhead

Alternative form of cash on the barrelhead

(biochemistry) A large beta sheet that twists and coils to form a closed structure in which the first strand is hydrogen-bonded to the last.

A two-wheeled vehicle used for moving sacks and other heavy items.

(military, historical) An empty powder barrel pierced with holes and filled with shavings soaked in pitch, used to light up a ditch or a breach.

A measure equal to five cubic feet, used in estimating capacity, as of a vessel for freight.

Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus, a subspecies of caribou found mainly in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, along with western Greenland.

(fisheries) 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.

plural of barrow boy

(Britain) A boy or man who sells goods – especially fruit or vegetables – from a barrow; a costermonger.