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Definition of Barrelheads
1. barrelhead [n] - See also: barrelhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrelheads
Literary usage of Barrelheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States: Annotated for Statistical ...edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun edited by Stephen Koplan, Deanna Tanner Okun (2006)
"4416.00.60 Staves and hoops; tight barrelheads of softwood J Free 30 Unassembled (knocked
... 30 Tight barrelheads J No. Used: 40 Staves J No. 50 Other No. ..."
2. Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings by Joseph Quincy Adams (1917)
"In the yard a temporary platform — a few boards, it may be, set on barrelheads ' —
could be erected for a stage; in the adjacent stables a dressing-room ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Let others that cannot do without standing on barrelheads, to spout, and be seen
of all the market-place, cultivate speech exclusively,—become a most green ..."
4. On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, John Chester Adams (1907)
"Let others that cannot do without standing on barrelheads, to spout, and be seen
of all the market-place, cultivate speech exclusively, — become a most ..."
5. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"... In the following cases it has been held not to apply: to shipping-marks on
barrelheads;77 to a superscription on an envelope;78 to labels of 69—King v. ..."
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