(Britain) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand. / (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.

(obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.

A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.

A structure that bars passage. / An obstacle or impediment. / A boundary or limit.

(transitive) To block or obstruct with a barrier.

(countable) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads. Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.

(transitive) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels. / (intransitive) To move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner.

(not comparable) Unable to bear children; sterile. / Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation. / Bleak. / Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. / Mentally dull; stupid.

An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

(military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.