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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ær�l|-ær�l

Etymology
From OF. baril.

Noun
en-noun

1. 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.

#:a cracker barrel

1. The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31 1/2 gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds; of beer 31 gallons; of ale 32 gallons.

#:Quotations
#:*1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.
#:*1882: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 205.

1. A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case;

#:''the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

1. A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
2. obsolete A jar. [Obs.] 1 Kings xvii. 12.
3. archaic A tube.
4. zoology The hollow basal part of a feather.
5. music The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
6. context|idiomatic|surfing A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
7. context|US|specifically|_|New England A waste receptacle.

#:Throw it away in the trash barrel.

1. The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.

Related terms
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barrel of monkeys
barrel roll
like shooting fish in a barrel
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lock, stock and barrel
over a barrel
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Translations
trans-top|round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop
French: t+|fr|tonneau
Icelandic: t+|is|tunna|f
Italian: t+|it|botte|f
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Japanese: 樽 (��, taru)
Korean: � (桶, tong)
Russian: t+|ru|бо�ка|f|trbó�ka|scCyrl
Slovene: t+|sl|sod|m
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trans-top|metallic tube of a gun
German: t+|de|Lauf|m
Icelandic: hlaup n, byssuhlaup n
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Japanese: �身 (jūshin)
Russian: t+|ru|��вол|m|trstvol|scCyrl
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trans-top|part of a clarinet
Icelandic: baula f
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Verb
en-verb|barrel|l|ed

1. to move quickly or in an uncontrolled manner

#:He came barrelling around the corner and I almost hit him.

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Noun
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1. barrel#English|barrel (units of measure).

:: Ber barrel neft 41 dollar = One barrel of oil 41 dollar ¹.

Declension
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