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noun
1.
a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
2.
the quantity that such a vessel of some standard size can hold: for most liquids, 311/2 U.S. gallons (119 L); for petroleum, 42 U.S. gallons (159 L); for dry materials, 105 U.S. dry quarts (115 L). Abbreviation: bbl
3.
any large quantity: a barrel of fun.
4.
any container, case, or part similar to a wooden barrel in form.
5.
EXPANDOrdnance. the tube of a gun.
6.
Machinery. the chamber of a pump in which the piston works.
7.
a drum turning on a shaft, as in a weight-driven clock.
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Horology. the cylindrical case in a watch or clock within which the mainspring is coiled.
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Ornithology Obsolete. a calamus or quill.
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the trunk of a quadruped, especially of a horse, cow, etc.
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Nautical. the main portion of a capstan, about which the rope winds, between the drumhead at the top and the pawl rim at the bottom.
12.
a rotating horizontal cylinder in which manufactured objects are coated or polished by tumbling in a suitable substance.
13.
any structure having the form of a barrel vault.
14.
COLLAPSEAlso called throat. Automotive. a passageway in a carburetor that has the shape of a Venturi tube.
verb (used with object)
15.
to put or pack in a barrel or barrels.
16.
to finish (metal parts) by tumbling in a barrel.
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verb (used without object)
Idiom18.
Informal. to travel or drive very fast: to barrel along the highway.
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over a barrel, Informal. in a helpless, weak, or awkward position; unable to act: They really had us over a barrel when they foreclosed the mortgage.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English barell < Anglo-French baril, Old French barril < Vulgar Latin *barrīculum, equivalent to *barrīc(a), perhaps derivative of Late Latin barra bar1 + Latin -ulum -ule; compare Medieval Latin (circa 800) barriclus small cask
1250–1300; Middle English barell < Anglo-French baril, Old French barril < Vulgar Latin *barrīculum, equivalent to *barrīc(a), perhaps derivative of Late Latin barra bar1 + Latin -ulum -ule; compare Medieval Latin (circa 800) barriclus small cask
Related forms
half-bar·rel, noun
un·bar·reled, adjective
un·bar·relled, adjective
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barrel
c.1300, from O.Fr. baril (12c.) "barrel, cask, vat," with cognates in all Romance languages (cf. It. barile, Sp. barril), but origin uncertain; perhaps from Gaulish, perhaps somehow related to bar (1). Meaning "metal tube of a gun" is from 1640s. The verb meaning "to move quickly"
EXPANDis 1930, Amer.Eng. slang, perhaps suggestive of a rolling barrel.
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