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What is the noun for barreleyes?

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barrel

(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.
The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(archaic) A tube.
(zoology) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(music) The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
(surfing) A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
(US, specifically New England) A waste receptacle.
The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
(obsolete) A jar.
(biology) Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
Synonyms:

cask, keg, drum, container, tun, firkin, butt, receptacle, hogshead, vessel, canister, pipe, vat, tank, can, tin, tub, kilderkin, cannister, puncheon, cylinder, rundlet, runlet, pin, barrique, solera, tierce, cylindrical container, rain barrel, water butt, holder, repository, bin, cistern, basin, kid, cauldron, jar, bucket, case, box, boiler, keeve, kier, storage chamber, chest, casket, chamber, silo, pot … more

Examples:

“The salt meats are kept in a large barrel, called the harness cask.”

“Put a barrel of food in front of a mule, and usually it will eat only what is needed and leave the rest.”

barrelful

As much as a barrel will hold.
A large amount.
Examples:

“If a barrel of apples contains just one poisoned apple, and you cannot tell outwardly which apple is the poisoned one, you must toss out the entire barrelful.”

“He made fresh water from salt water by means of a distilling apparatus which furnished a barrelful every night.”

“The country to the leeward of Kilauea shows an abundance of Pele's hair, and it may be gathered by the barrelful.”

barreleye

A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.
Synonyms:

spookfish

Examples:

“The brownsnout spookfish is a species of barreleye is the only vertebrate known to employ a mirror, as opposed to a lens, to focus an image in its eyes.”

barreling