Definition of "gun-barrel" [gun-barrel]

• The barrel or tube of a gun.— (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And at the far end of the gun-barrel, beyond the pan of ice, I placed a small iron pot."
• "The brew was singing merrily when they began shoving aside the skin flap and crawling in, and I was heaping cracked ice on the gun-barrel."
• "Moosu, and the gooseneck, and the gun-barrel, and the copper kettle."