Barrels
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[bar-uh
l] noun, verb, bar·reled, bar·rel·ing or ( especially British ) bar·relled, bar·rel·ling. 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, 31½ 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.
Ordnance. 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.
8.
Horology. the cylindrical case in a watch or clock within which the mainspring is coiled.
9.
Ornithology Obsolete. a calamus or quill.
10.
the trunk of a quadruped, especially of a horse, cow, etc.
11.
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.
Also 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.
17.
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verb (used without object)
Idioms 18.
Informal. to travel or drive very fast: to barrel along the highway.
19.
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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| —n | |
| 1. | a cylindrical container usually bulging outwards in the middle and held together by metal hoops; cask |
| 2. | Also called: barrelful the amount that a barrel can hold |
| 3. | a unit of capacity used in brewing, equal to 36 Imperial gallons |
| 4. | a unit of capacity used in the oil and other industries, normally equal to 42 US gallons or 35 Imperial gallons |
| 5. | a thing or part shaped like a barrel, esp a tubular part of a machine |
| 6. | the tube through which the projectile of a firearm is discharged |
| 7. | horology the cylindrical drum in a watch or clock that is rotated by the mainspring |
| 8. | the trunk of a four-legged animal: the barrel of a horse |
| 9. | the quill of a feather |
| 10. | informal a large measure; a great deal (esp in the phrases barrel of fun, barrel of laughs) |
| 11. | informal (Austral) the hollow inner side of a wave |
| 12. | informal over a barrel powerless |
| 13. | informal scrape the barrel to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource |
| —vb , -rels, -relling, -relled, -rels, -reling, -reled | |
| 14. | (tr) to put into a barrel or barrels |
| 15. | informal (intr |
| 16. | informal (Austral) to ride on the inside of a wave |
| [C14: from Old French baril perhaps from barre | |
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Word Origin & History
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"
is 1930, Amer.Eng. slang, perhaps suggestive of a rolling barrel.
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Slang Dictionary
barrel definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Bible Dictionary
Barrel definition
a vessel used for keeping flour (1 Kings 17:12, 14, 16). The same word (cad) so rendered is also translated "pitcher," a vessel for carrying water (Gen. 24:14; Judg. 7:16).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
The soaring prices of bushels and barrels are not unconnected.
But those giant presses and barrels of ink and fleets of delivery trucks were never what made newspapers invaluable.
If you don't have a swimming pool, you could install a cistern or rain barrels.
The river has little ripply waves, maybe from a speedboat out beyond the white barrels.
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