barrel
noun
a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I am barreling through white flame and absolute darkness, the nexus between life and death.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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