flour-barrel n1 Phr eat out of one flour barrel: to share a single account at a merchant's store.
   1967 FIRESTONE 48 In the past there were many extended families that had no household accounts. There was but the company account and to this were charged all the food, clothing and other articles purchased by the father for the group... They would all 'eat out of one flour barrel,' both in the sense that they shared what had been purchased for all and, literally, in that the family head would open a barrel of flour which all would use until the contents were consumed.
   2 Comb flour-barrel chair: a home-made chair fashioned from a flour-barrel; BARREL-CHAIR.
   T 96/9-64¹ That was a flour-barrel chair, sawed off. They had a flour-barrel chair, sawed off. They had a flop here in 'em, see, used to rise up, cover. Rise up the cover and that's where they put all their sewin' and knittin'. 1966 SCAMMELL 50 Uncle Neddie leaned back in his flour-barrel chair, lit his pipe and expatiated on his favourite subject. T 409-67 That's all I had then—the flour-barrel chair.

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