'Going barrel' definitions:

Definition of 'Going barrel'

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Going \Go"ing\, n.
1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad. [1913 Webster]
2. Departure. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew. [1913 Webster]
4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. [1913 Webster]
His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. --Job xxxiv. 21. [1913 Webster]
Going barrel. (Horology) (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.
Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going forth of the sanctuary." --Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." --Num. xxxiv. 4.
Going out, or Goings out. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. "The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea." --Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys." --Num. xxxiii. 2.
Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.